The Upward Path

INCLUDES THE WORKS OF: Paul Laurence Dunbar William H. Holtzclaw Booker T. Washington William H. Holtzclaw Augusta Bird H. Cordelia Ray W. E. B. DuBois Paul Laurence Dunbar Angelina W. Grimke Charles W. Chesnutt James E. Shepard James Weldon Johnson William J. Edwards H. Cordelia Ray James Weldon Johnson W. E. B. DuBois Lottie Burrell Dixon H. Cordelia Ray Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U.S.A. 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 William Stanley Braithwaite Leila A. Pendleton Emmett J. Scott Roscoe C. Jamison George W. Ellis H. Cordelia Ray 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 and Theodore Bond Edward Smyth Jones Silas X. Floyd Ruth Anna Fisher Benjamin Brawley William J. Simmons James Weldon Johnson William Henry Sheppard William C. Jason Kelly Miller HISTORY IS NOT POLITICALLY CORRECT Words, phrases, and even ideas that were commonplace and accepted a hundred years ago are considered inappropriate today - but if we alter the language of the past, we alter the truth. THE UPWARD PATH contains some of those no-longer-proper words and ideas, but this is what was considered the right kind of reading for African-American children and students in 1920; to pretend it was different would rob us of the chance to understand the past a little bit better. Between these covers are some of the best writing by, for, and about African-American authors in the 19th and early 20th Centuries.