Author: HUGHES, LANGSTON - NARRATED BY; [MOSES ASCH]
Title: PANORAMA OF NEGRO HISTORY From 1492 to Today [Demonstration Record featuring excerpts of "Voices and Songs from the extensive Folkways/Scholastic Negro history record library"]
Description: Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Folkways/Scholastic Records, 1968. 1968, 1st Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. This is a 7-inch 33 1/3 rpm record featuring 19 excerpts from the more than 50 records of the Folkways/Scholastic Negro history library, apparently all or to a great extent recorded by Moses Asch beginning before World War II. This demo record # CC 0615 is about like new and the sleeve is VG+ (printed black on white, information front and back, John Taylor photo of Langston Hughes on the front and a woodcut of a civil war soldier on the back). The 19 excerpts include narrations or songs by Langston Hughes, Ossie Davis, Pete Seeger, Dorothy Franklin Washington, Missionary Quintet, Hermes Nye, W.E.B. DuBois, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. President Eisenhower & President Kennedy. Topics include: Negroes coming to America as free men with explorers, Harriet Tubman's escape to freedom, Frederick Douglass on the candidacy of Abraham Lincoln, Founding of the NAACP, Nashville sit-in, 1963 March on Washington, etc. Fine/Dust Jacket Included.

Keywords: Afro-American Studies Music Poetry History Civil Rights Recordings Records