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Lamp of Wisdom

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William H. Councill, former slave and contemporary of Booker T. Washington was founder of Huntsville Normal School, now Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University in Normal, Alabama. This book written in a question and answer format is his view of the history or the “Negro Race” from Africa through slavery in the United States, and accomplishments after emancipation, and all fields of culture through near the end of the 19th Century. - Summary by Larry Wilson (4 hr 45 min)

Chapters

Dedication, Preface and Publisher's Announcement

2:58

Read by Larry Wilson

Africa

7:17

Read by Larry Wilson

Negro

5:52

Read by Larry Wilson

Slavery

13:55

Read by Larry Wilson

Slavery Abolished

5:48

Read by Larry Wilson

A Marble Shaft to the Memory of the Memory of Faithful Slaves

1:56

Read by Larry Wilson

Population

8:00

Read by Larry Wilson

Our Race Name

5:10

Read by Larry Wilson

Financial Growth

3:58

Read by Larry Wilson

The White South and Negro Education

6:33

Read by Larry Wilson

What Negro Education Has Done for the South Since the War

2:46

Read by Larry Wilson

What Benevolence Has Done for Negro Education

1:51

Read by Larry Wilson

Schools

14:38

Read by Larry Wilson

Deceased Race Leaders

1:48

Read by Larry Wilson

The Negro as a Soldier

9:13

Read by Larry Wilson

Negro Education During the Rebellion

2:37

Read by Larry Wilson

Negroes in Federal Offices

8:29

Read by Larry Wilson

Negro Members of Congress

3:47

Read by Larry Wilson

Negro Lawyers

4:29

Read by Larry Wilson

Negro Physicians

4:50

Read by Larry Wilson

The Negro in Dentistry

4:20

Read by Larry Wilson

Afro-American Authors

16:54

Read by Larry Wilson

''The Dying Bondman"

2:37

Read by Larry Wilson

Great Words of a Great Man

3:54

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Best Thoughts of Negro Leaders

16:38

Read by Andrew Kennedy

The Negro Press

4:50

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Representative Negro Editors

1:53

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Negro Women Writers of Distinction

2:37

Read by Larry Wilson

The Stage

7:26

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Insurance

4:18

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Banks

1:14

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Sanitatariums and Hospital

2:56

Read by Larry Wilson

Homes for the Negro Homeless

5:59

Read by Larry Wilson

Artists

1:20

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Negro Baptist Church

4:00

Read by Larry Wilson

African Methodist Episcopal Church

3:19

Read by Larry Wilson

African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

2:58

Read by Larry Wilson

C. M. E. Church in America

2:11

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The Presbyterian Chuch and the Negro

2:06

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Negro Cumberland Presbyterians

1:11

Read by Larry Wilson

Underground Railroad

2:20

Read by Larry Wilson

Grand United Order of Odd-Fellows in America

8:01

Read by Larry Wilson

Scottish Rite Negro Masons

13:42

Read by Larry Wilson

Independent Order Immaculate

1:47

Read by Larry Wilson

The Order of Twelve

3:28

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Negro Pythian Knights

1:44

Read by Larry Wilson

Benevolent Order of Colored Professionals

0:51

Read by Larry Wilson

The Y.M.C.A. Work

1:10

Read by RickHall

Miscellaneous Race Facts

37:13

Read by RickHall

Greatest Things on Earth

6:44

Read by RickHall