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Unsung Heroes

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This book consists of 17 biographies of remarkable men and women who, in 1921, were "unsung." Some of them are now pretty well known while others are still, sadly, rather unrecognized. Written by Elizabeth Ross Haynes (herself a African American activist and social worker in the first half of the 20th century), her heroes include Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Laurence Dunbar, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Alexandre Dumas, and many others. - Summary by kathrinee (5 hr 19 min)

Chapters

Foreword

1:47

Read by Jim Locke

Frederick Douglass, part 1

21:47

Read by Jim Locke

Frederick Douglass, part 2

16:39

Read by Jim Locke

Paul Laurence Dunbar, part 1

11:35

Read by Larry Wilson

Paul Laurence Dunbar, part 2

15:05

Read by Larry Wilson

Booker Taliaferro Washington, part 1

12:15

Read by Jill Engle

Booker Taliaferro Washington, part 2

15:56

Read by Jill Engle

Harriet Tubman

20:54

Read by Jason in Panama

Alexander Sergyeyevich Pushkin

13:47

Read by Larry Wilson

Blanche Kelso Bruce

9:28

Read by Jim Locke

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, part 1

16:16

Read by James K. White

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, part 2

15:31

Read by Jim Locke

Benjamin Banneker

16:48

Read by Jim Locke

Phillis Wheatley

15:16

Read by Kathleen Flanary

Toussaint L'Ouverture

11:12

Read by Larry Wilson

Josiah Henson

22:56

Read by Jim Locke

Sojourner Truth

23:41

Read by Jim Locke

Crispus Attucks

9:43

Read by Jim Locke

Alexandre Dumas

13:00

Read by Jason in Panama

Paul Cuffé

14:00

Read by Jim Locke

Alexander Crummell

5:25

Read by Tone Cluster

John Mercer Langston

16:34

Read by tovarisch

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The heroes portrayed are: musician Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, poetess Phillis Wheatley, writers Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alexandre Dumas and Alexander Pushkin, astronomer Benjamin Banneker, social leader Harriet Tubman, abolitionist Frederick Douglass, educator and statesman Booker T. Washington, US senator Blanche Kelso Bruce, suffragist Sojourner Truth, rebel in Boston Crispus Attucks, scholar and congressman John Mercer Langston, minister and missionary Alexander Crummell, soldier and president of Haiti Toussaint L'Ouverture, servant Josiah Henson and sailor Paul Cuffé