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Title: The Upward Path
A Reader For Colored Children

Author: Various

Release Date: March 1, 2010 [EBook #31456]

Language: English

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THE UPWARD PATH

A READER FOR COLORED
CHILDREN

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
ROBERT R. MOTON
PRINCIPAL OF TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE

COMPILED BY
MYRON T. PRITCHARD
PRINCIPAL, EVERETT SCHOOL, BOSTON

AND

MARY WHITE OVINGTON
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE
ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE

NEW YORK
HARCOURT, BRACE AND HOWE

COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY
HARCOURT, BRACE AND HOWE, INC.

[Illustration]

[Illustration: The Boy and the Bayonet]

FOREWORD

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. Realizing this lack, Myron T. Pritchard,
Principal of the Everett School, Boston, and Mary White Ovington,
Chairman of the Board of the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People, have brought together poems, stories, sketches and
addresses which bear eloquent testimony to the richness of the literary
product of our Negro writers. 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.

The editors desire to express thanks to the authors who have generously
granted