Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer

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Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer

This edition

"The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer: Containing the Best Prose and Poetic Selections by and about the Negro Race." Ed. Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson. Intro. Lesley Pinckney Hill. Naperville, IL: J. L. Nichols, 1920. 288 pp.

Other editions, reprints, and translations

"The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer; The Poet and His Song." Intro. Akasha (Gloria) Hull. New York: G. K. Hall, 1996. xxxv+338 pp.

Table of contents

● Foreword
● Introduction

Book I: Juvenile
● Alexander Poushkin / The Birdlet
● Frances E. W. Harper / The Sparrow's Fall
● Paul Laurence Dunbar / The Seedling
● D. T. Williamson / A Song for Arbor Day
● William Stanley Braithwaite / Thanksgiving
● Anon. / The Cucuya
● Anon. / The Clock That Gains
● Charlotte Forten Grimke / A June Song
● William Stanley Braithwaite / A City Garden

Book II: Dialect (Humorous)
● Paul Laurence Dunbar / In the Morning
● Paul Laurence Dunbar / Dat Ol' Mare o' Mine
● Paul Laurence Dunbar / The Case o' Ca'line
● Miles O’Reilly / Sambo's Right to Be Kilt
● *Ruth McEnery Stuart / An Easter Symbol
● *J. R. Dungee / The Fun'l of Br'er Tony Smif
● James Weldon Johnson / Tunk
● Anon. / Uncle Ike's Roosters

Book III: Dialect (Serious)
● Paul Laurence Dunbar / A Little Christmas Basket
● Paul Laurence Dunbar / When Dey 'Listed Colored Soldiers
● Alice Ruth Moore / The Praline Woman
● *Payne Erskine / Mammy Clarissa's Vengeance
● *Will M. Carleton / The Four Travellers

Book IV: Dramatic
● Joseph S. Cotter, Jr. / The Band of Gideon
● James Weldon Johnson / The White Witch
● Paul Laurence Dunbar / The Unsung Heroes
● Paul Laurence Dunbar / Black Samson of Brandywine
● Paul Laurence Dunbar / The Haunted Oak
● Paul Laurence Dunbar / Ode to Ethiopia
● Paul Laurence Dunbar / The Finish of Patsy Barnes
● Reverdy C. Ransom / A Prophecy
● E. A. Long / Hear, O Church
● William Edgar Easton / Dessalines
● Charles W. Chesnutt / The Sisters
● W.E.B. DuBois / The Modern Christmas on the Plantation
● *John G. Whittier / Farewell of a Virginia Slave Mother
● *Mary A. Phinney Stansbury / How He Saved St. Michaels
● *John Pierpont / The Fugitive Slave to the North Star
● *Walt Whitman / Ethiopia Saluting the Colors
● *William Cullen Bryant / The African Chief
● *J. W. Chadwick / The Black Man's Burden
● Alice Dunbar-Nelson / The Lights at Carney's Point
● *Alma and Paul Ellerbe / It's Me, O Lord!
● Ralph W. Tyler / How France Received the Negro Soldiers
● *Charles Wilto / How Jim Europe Broke into the War
● *Ella Wheeler Wilcox / The Stevedores
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / Shall I Say, My Son, You Are Branded?
● Orlando C. W. Taylor / In Flanders Fields, An Echo
● Alice Dunbar-Nelson / I Sit and Sew
● *Madison Cawein / The Lynchers
● *Madison Cawein / Ku Klux
● *George H. Boker / The Second Louisiana
● *Oliver Wendell Holmes / To Canaan
● *Phoebe Carey / The Hero of Fort Wagner
● *Robert W. Brownell / Bury Them
● Ethel Davis / Whether White or Black, a Man
● Walter Everette Hawkins / Ethiopian Maid
● D. Webster Davis / Mat
● Lester B. Granger / Belgium
● *John G. Whittier / Laus Deo
● James Weldon Johnson / O Black and Unknown Bards
● *E. Stoutenburg / The Young Warrior
● Alice Dunbar-Nelson / Mine Eyes Have Seen
● Alexander Poushkin / Winter Morning
● Alexander Poushkin / Winter Evening
● Alexander Poushkin / Friendship
● Alexander Poushkin / The Bard

Book V: Oratorical
● J. W. Chipman / Frederick Douglass
● Roscoe Conkling Simmons / A Negro's Rebuke
● Clayton Powell / An Appeal for Constitutional Rights
● Frederick Douglass / The Fourth of July
● Alice Dunbar-Nelson / Lincoln and Douglass
● Booker T. Washington / The Better Part
● *Thaddeus Stevens / After Emancipation—What?
● David B. Fulton / Memorial Day in the South
● Wendell Phillips / Toussaint L'Ouverture
● Frederick Douglass / Abraham Lincoln
● *Anna E. Dickinson / Fort Wagner
● Alice Dunbar-Nelson / The Boys of Howard School
● Joseph S. Cotter, Jr. / The Mulatto to his Critics
● George C. Ruffin, Crispus Attucks

Book VI: Commemorative
● [*]Abraham Lincoln / Emancipation Proclamation
● Alice Dunbar-Nelson / To the Negro Farmers
● *William Wordsworth / Toussaint L'Ouverture
● *John G. Whittier / Toussaint L'Ouverture
● Alice Ruth Moore / Memorial Day
● Phillis Wheatley / George Washington–
● David B. Fulton / Abraham Lincoln
● Charlotte Forten Grimke / Charles Sumner
● *George C. Rowe / Crispus Attucks
● T. Thomas Fortune / Nat Turner
● D. Wester Davis / Emancipation
● James Weldon Johnson / Fifty Years
● [*]J. R. Dungee / Booker T. Washington
● *Theodore Roosevelt / Booker Washington

Book VII: Programs

* The names marked with an asterisk are the names of members of the Caucasian Race.

Reviews and notices of anthology

● "The Negro in Literature 1919-1921." Negro Year Book and Annual Encyclopedia of the Negro 6 (1922): 99-103, at 100.
"'The best prose and poetic selections by and about the Negro race.' The purpose of this volume is to furnish for Negro children literary selections of high quality that at the same time give information and inspire race pride. The selections while relating to the Negro are by both white and Negro authors. 'The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer,' should be widely read." [full notice]

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A0489

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