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Various Artists - Every Tone a Testimony: An African American Aural History (2001)

Track listing:
  1. The Struggle - Langston Hughes
  2. Field Call - Annie Grace Horn Dodson
  3. Complaint Call - Enoch Brown
  4. Intro And Kneebone Bend - Lawrence McKiver/Doretha Skipper
  5. Brother Terrapin, Slow Train To Arkansas - Rich Amerson
  6. Jack And Mary And Three Dogs - Mrs. Janie Hunter
  7. Buck Dance - Joe Tucker
  8. I'm Goin' Up North - Children Of East York School
  9. Pharaoh's Host Got Lost - Lawrence McKiver
  10. Bars Fight By Lucy Terry - Arna Bontemps
  11. Earl Of Dartmouth - Dorothy F. Washington
  12. I Wonder Where My Brother Gone - Annie Grace Horn Dodson
  13. Narrative By Harriet Tubman - Dorothy F. Washington
  14. Speech At Akron Convention By Sojourner Truth - Ruby Dee
  15. Singing Slaves By Frederick Douglass - Ossie Davis
  16. Steal Away To Jesus - Kinsey West
  17. What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July? By Frederick Douglass - Ossie Davis
  18. Why Slavery Is Still Rampant? By Sarah Parker Remond - Ruby Dee
  19. Free At Last - Dock Reed/Vera Hall Ward
  20. When Malindy Sings By Paul Lawrence Dunbar - Margaret Walker
  21. There's A Great Camp Meeting - Fisk Jubilee Singers
  22. Atlanta Exposition Address - Booker T. Washington
  23. John Henry - Brownie McGhee/Sonny Terry
  24. Banjo Player By Fenton Johnson - Anna Bontemps
  25. Boatman Dance - Elizabeth Cotten
  26. Shine - Percy Randolph
  27. Chopping In The New Ground - Inmates Of Ramsey Or Retrieve State Farms, TX
  28. Lynching, Our National Crime By Ida B. Wells-Barnett - Ruby Dee
  29. A Recorded Autobiography - W.E.B. Du Bois
  30. Listen Lord, A Prayer By James Weldon Johnson - Margaret Walker
  31. My Heart Is Fixed - Reverend Gary Davis
  32. The Titanic - Lead Belly
  33. Heritage - Countee Cullen
  34. Jungle Drums - James P. Johnson
  35. No More Auction Block - Paul Robeson
  36. The Negro Speaks Of Rivers - Langston Hughes
  37. If We Must Die - Claude McKay
  38. Ma Rainey - Sterling Brown
  39. Backwater Blues - Big Bill Broonzy
  40. Married Man Blues - Billie And Dee Dee Pierce
  41. For My People - Margaret Walker
  42. The Children Of The Poor, Sonnet 2 - Gwendolyn Brooks
  43. Body And Soul - George 'Big Nick' Nicholas
  44. How He Delivered Me - Juanita Johnson & The Gospel Tones
  45. Long Distance Call - Muddy Waters
  46. Cry To Me - Solomon Burke
  47. Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around - SNCC Freedom Singers
  48. Birmingham 1963 - Keep Moving - Martin Luther King, Jr.
  49. Black Panther Party Platform - Bobby Seale
  50. Interview (Excerpt) - Angela Davis
  51. Together To The Tune Of Coltrane's 'Equinox' - Sarah Webster Fabio
  52. Nikki-Rosa - Nikki Giovanni
  53. Liberation/Poem - Sonia Sanchez
  54. Dope - Amiri Baraka
  55. The Village Of Brooklyn, Illinois 62059 - Hamlet Bluiett
  56. For The Poets - Jayne Cortez
  57. Shotgun Joe - Golden Eagles
  58. St. Louis Woman - Ishmael Reed
  59. People Everyday - Arrested Development