Lamp of Wisdom


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
Africa 7:17
Negro 5:52
Slavery 13:55
Slavery Abolished 5:48
A Marble Shaft to the Memory of the Memory of Faithful Slaves 1:56
Population 8:00
Our Race Name 5:10
Financial Growth 3:58
The White South and Negro Education 6:33
What Negro Education Has Done for the South Since the War 2:46
What Benevolence Has Done for Negro Education 1:51
Schools 14:38
Deceased Race Leaders 1:48
The Negro as a Soldier 9:13
Negro Education During the Rebellion 2:37
Negroes in Federal Offices 8:29
Negro Members of Congress 3:47
Negro Lawyers 4:29
Negro Physicians 4:50
The Negro in Dentistry 4:20
Afro-American Authors 16:54
''The Dying Bondman" 2:37
Great Words of a Great Man 3:54
Best Thoughts of Negro Leaders 16:38
The Negro Press 4:50
Representative Negro Editors 1:53
Negro Women Writers of Distinction 2:37
The Stage 7:26
Insurance 4:18
Banks 1:14
Sanitatariums and Hospital 2:56
Homes for the Negro Homeless 5:59
Artists 1:20
Negro Baptist Church 4:00
African Methodist Episcopal Church 3:19
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church 2:58
C. M. E. Church in America 2:11
The Presbyterian Chuch and the Negro 2:06
Negro Cumberland Presbyterians 1:11
Underground Railroad 2:20
Grand United Order of Odd-Fellows in America 8:01
Scottish Rite Negro Masons 13:42
Independent Order Immaculate 1:47
The Order of Twelve 3:28
Negro Pythian Knights 1:44
Benevolent Order of Colored Professionals 0:51
The Y.M.C.A. Work 1:10
Miscellaneous Race Facts 37:13
Greatest Things on Earth 6:44