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In 1920 African American scholars put together "The Upward Path," a collection they would describe in the foreword as "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."
A literary treasure and artifact of American history (albeit with some dated language), "The Upward Path" collection includes contributions from:
Paul Laurence Dunbar
William H. Holtzclaw
Booker T. Washington
Augusta Bird
H. Cordelia Ray
W. E. B. DuBois
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Angelina W. Grimke
Charles W. Chesnutt
James E. Shepard
William J. Edwards
Lottie Burrell Dixon
Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper
Phyllis Wheatley
William H. Holtzclaw
Alston W. Burleigh
Walter F. White
A. O. Stafford
Joseph S. Cotter
C. Emily Frazier
William Pickens
Jessie Fauset
Frederick Douglass
W. H. Crogman
William Henry Sheppard
Lillian B. Witten
Joseph F. Cotter, Jr.
Azalia Hackley
Lillian B. Witten
Matthew A. Henson
William Wells Brown
Charles W. Anderson
John W. Cromwell
Fenton Johnson
William Stanley Braithwaite
Emmett J. Scott
Leila A. Pendleton
Emmett J. Scott
Roscoe C. Jamison
George W. Ellis
Silas X. Floyd
Joseph F. Cotter, Jr.
L. J. Coppin
W. H. Crogman
Ralph W. Tyler
James Weldon Johnson
Emmett J. Scott
Daniel A. Rudd
Theodore Bond
Edward Smyth Jones
Ruth Anna Fisher
Benjamin Brawley
William, J. Simmons
William Henry Sheppard
William C. Jason
Kelly Miller
This e-book version also includes the FULL account of Matthew Alexander Henson's voyage to the Arctic (previous versions of "An Upward Path" included only excerpts). Henson was an American explorer who is best known for his participation in the 1908-1909 polar expedition with Robert Perry that reached the geographic North Pole on April 6, 1909.
Henson claimed he was the first of their party to reach the pole, a story that rewrites history, making Henson -- a son of sharecroppers and student of Inuit survival techniques -- the first person to reach the North Pole, not Robert Perry. While some scholars have cast doubt on whether or not Henson and Perry's expedition made it to the true pole, Henson's complete memoir is a riveting read.
Henson was the first life time, African American member of The Explorers Club; received the Peary Polar Expedition Medal, and posthumously awarded the Hubbard Medal by the National Geographic Society.
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