Table of Contents:
  • I. Fiction: Charles W. Chesnutt
  • Jean Toomer
  • Rudolph Fisher
  • Arna Bontemps
  • Langston Hughes
  • Richard Wright
  • Ann Petry
  • Ralph Ellison
  • Frank London Brown
  • Paule Marshall
  • Diane Oliver
  • II. Autobiography: Frederick Douglass
  • James Weldon Johnson
  • Richard Wright
  • J. Saunders Redding
  • James Baldwin
  • Arna Bontemps
  • Malcolm X
  • Stanley Sanders
  • III. Poetry: Paul Laurence Dunbar
  • W.E.B. Du Bois
  • James Weldon Johnson
  • Fenton Johnson
  • Claude McKay
  • Jean Toomer
  • Countee Cullen
  • Melvin B. Tolson
  • Frank Horne
  • Sterling A. Brown
  • Arna Bontemps
  • Langston Hughes
  • Frank Marshall Davis
  • Richard Wright
  • Robert Hayden
  • Owen Dodson
  • Margaret Walker
  • Gwendolyn Brooks
  • Dudley Randall
  • Lerone Bennett, Jr.
  • Lance Jeffers
  • Naomi Long Madgett
  • Mari Evans
  • Leroi Jones
  • IV. Literary criticism: W.E.B. Du Bois
  • Alain Locke
  • Richard Wright
  • James Baldwin
  • Three papers from the First Conference of Negro Writers (March, 1959): Arthur P. Davis
  • J. Saunders Redding
  • Langston Hughes
  • Blyden Jackson
  • John Henrik Clarke
  • Richard G. Stern
  • Dan Georgakas
  • Sterling Stuckey
  • Darwin T. Turner
  • George E. Kent
  • Clarence Major.