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