Unsung Americans sung
By: edited by W. C. Handy
Publisher: Handy Brothers Music Co.
Published: 1944
Place of publication: [New York?
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: African Americans -- Songs and music
Genres: Songs and music
Notes: Principally biographical sketches of prominent Negroes, with music written about them. With 32 ink drawings by american painter Beauford Delaney (1901-1979). The music is for solo voice or mixed chorus, with piano accompaniment

Bibliography: p. 235-236
Table of contents: title: Anima Aneceps (The Negro's Heart); title: A soldier's prayer; title: Aframerican Hymn; title: Aintcha got music; title: Ira Aldridge; title: Richard Allen; title: Crispus Attucks; title: Benjamin Banneker; title: John Brown's body; title: Honor to Trujillo; title: Robert H. Brooks; title: Dr. George Washington Carver; title: Frederick Douglas; title: Paul Laurence Dunbar; title: Matthew A. Henson; title: I'm somebody; title: Finis; title: Black Patti; title: Toussaint L'Ouverture; title: Remembered; title: Dorie Miller; title: Lincoln's Gettysburg Address; title: The Temple of Music; title: Isaac Murphy; title: The Curator; title: Wm. Monroe Trotter; title: Harriet Tubman; title: Tradition; title: Opportunity; title: Thaddeus Stevens; title: The Mighty Rapture; title: The Negro speaks of rivers; title: The enlisted soldiers; title: Booker T. Washington; title: Phyllis Wheatley; title: We are Americans too; title: When the Black man has a nation of his own; title: The Memphis Blues; title: We are climbing Jacob's ladder