Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes

Children's Fiction

The Upward Path: A Reader For Colored Children

by VARIOUS ( - )

From the preface of the book: "To the present time, there has been no collection of stories and poems by Negro writers, which colored children could read with interest and pleasure and in which they could find a mirror of the traditions and aspirations of their race." This reader from 1920 is a collection of writings by an impressive line-up of African-American writers, activists, and educators. "It is the hope that this little book will find a large welcome in all sections of the country and will bring good cheer and encouragement to the young readers who have so largely the fortunes of their race in their own hands." - Summary by kathrinee and the editors.

Listen next episodes of The Upward Path: A Reader For Colored Children:
A Day at Kalk Bay, South Africa , A Great Kingdom in the Congo , A Legend of the Blue Jay , A Negro Explorer at the North Pole , A Negro Woman's Hospitality , A Song of Thanks , Abraham Lincoln , An Hymn to the Evening , Animal Life in the Congo , Behind a Georgia Mule , Benjamin Banneker , Bishop Atticus G. Haygood , Children at Easter , Co-operation and the Latin Class , David Livingstone , Evening Prayer , Fifty Years: 1863-1913 , Frederick Douglass , Going to School under Difficulties , Hayti and Toussant L'Ouverture , His Motto , How I Escaped , How Two Colored Captains Fell , Incident in the Life of Frederick Douglass , Ira Aldridge , Is the Game Worth the Candle? , It's a Long Way , Negro Music that Stirred France , Negro Soldiers , November 11, 1918 , O Black and Unknown Bards , O Little David, Play on your Harp , Oath of Afro-American Youth , On Planting Artichokes: From the Life of Scott Bond , Our Dumb Animals , Paul Cuffe , Pillars of the State , Record of "The Old Fifteenth" in France , Rondeau , Sea Lyric , The Band of Gideon , The Black Fairy , The Boy and the Ideal , The Brave Son , The Colored Cadet at West Point , The "Devil Bush" and the "Greegree Bush" , The Dog and the Clever Rabbit , The Enchanted Shell , The Greatest Menace of the South , The Home of the Colored Girl Beautiful , The Knighting of Donald , The Land of Laughter , The Months , The Negro Race , The Strenuous Life , The Web of Circumstance , The Young Warrior , Victory , Whole Regiments Decorated