Jim Locke

Finding a Way Out: An Autobiography

by Robert R. Moton Read by Jim Locke 3
He says about this work: "I have tried to record the events that have given character and colour to my own life, and at the same time t…

The Chronicles of America Volume 13 - The Fathers of the Constitution

by Max Farrand Read by Jim Locke 3.8
In this next installment of the Chronicles of America, Farrand takes American history from peace treaty, to trade, to confederation, to furt…

Walker's Appeal

by David Walker Read by Jim Locke
The Appeal grabbed readers’ attention in as dramatic a manner as Walker could have possibly imagined. In her book, Maria W. Stewart and the …

The Chronicles of America Volume 11 - Eve of the Revolution

by Carl L. Becker Read by Jim Locke
Here is a look at the evolution of thought and events that led Benjamin Franklin to make this statement: "British subjects, by removing…

The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories

by Alice Dunbar Nelson Read by Jim Locke 3.5
These stories focus on the Creole society of New Orleans and in the process reveals issues facing black Americans at the end of the nineteen…

Minnie's Sacrifice

by Frances E. W. Harper Read by Jim Locke 3.8
Minnie, who lives in the South, does not know she is a mulatto. She is sent to the North after her mother's death, and there she marries Lou…

Special Report on Negro Domestic Service in the Seventh Ward Philadelphia

by Isabel Eaton Read by Jim Locke
This paper is an attempt to give the most accurate facts obtainable bearing upon the question of colored domestic service in Philadelphia. (…

The Chronicles of America Volume 04 - Crusaders of New France

by William Bennett Munro Read by Jim Locke 0.5
The previous volumes in the Chronicles of America series placed Spain and England at the fore in the discovery and development of the New Wo…

Ireland Under the Stuarts and During the Interregnum, Volume 2

by Richard Bagwell Read by Jim Locke
This second volume of a history of Ireland focuses on the years 1642-1660. It, like the first, was a period of dramatic, and even of violent…

The State of Society in France Before the Revolution of 1789

by Alexis de Tocqueville and Alexis De Tocqueville Read by Jim Locke 5
A thorough analysis of the social, religious, and political dynamics of French society which led to the French Revolution.

The House of Mystery

by Richard Marsh Read by Jim Locke 3.8
The House of Mystery is based upon the complicated plot involving two women who look exactly alike, one rich and one poor, and so mistaken i…

The Primitive

by Chester Himes Read by Jim Locke
A nerve-twisting novel of passion and destruction (Summary by a literary critic)

Black No More

by George Schuyler Read by Jim Locke
Being an account of the strange and wonderful workings of science in the land of the free, A.D. 1933-1940. (Summary by author)

The Garies and their Friends

by Frank Webb Read by Jim Locke
The book which now appears before the public may be of interest in relation to a question which the late agitation of the subject of slavery…

Cane

by Jean Toomer Read by Jim Locke 2.3
Reading this book, I had a vision of a land, heretofore sunk in the mists of muteness, suddenly rising up into the eminence of song. Innume…

The Theory of Psychoanalysis

by Carl Gustav Jung Read by Jim Locke 3.7
Jung says the following in his introduction: "in these lectures I have attempted to reconcile my practical experiences in psychoanalysi…

The Gift of Black Folk: The Negroes in the Making of America

by W. E. B. Du Bois Read by Jim Locke 3.4
This essay is an attempt to set forth more clearly than has hitherto been done the effect which the Negro has had upon American life. Its th…

Epochs of American History: Division and Reunion 1829-1889

by Thomas Woodrow Wilson and Woodrow Wilson Read by Jim Locke 3.9
This third volume of Epochs of American History covers a tumultuous sixty years between the presidencies of Andrew Jackson and Grover Clevel…

Whitman: An Interpretation in Narrative

by Emory Holloway Read by Jim Locke
"You want to know in a word the sum total of my life philosophy as I have tried to live it and as I have tried to put it in my book. I …

Rousseau and Education According to Nature

by Thomas Davidson Read by Jim Locke 1
In my Volume on Aristotle in this series, I tried to give an account of ancient, classical, and social Education; in the present volume I ha…

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