Introduction / John Henrik Clarke
The lynching of Jube Benson / Paul Laurence Dunbar
On being crazy / W. E. B. Du Bois
The goophered grapevine / Charles Waddell Chesnutt
The city of refuge / Rudolph Fisher
The overcoat / John P. Davis
Truant / Claude McKay
A summer tragedy / Arna Bontemps
The gilded six-bits / Zora Neale Hurston
Bright and morning star / Richard Wright
The boy who painted Christ black / John Henrik Clarke
One Friday morning / Langston Hughes
So peaceful in the country / Carl Ruthven Offord
And/or / Sterling Brown
Fighter / John Caswell Smith
The homecoming / Frank Yerby
How John Boscoe outsung the devil / Arthur P. Davis
Solo on the drums / Ann Petry
Mama's missionary money / Chester Himes
See how they run / Mary Elizabeth Vroman
Exodus / James Baldwin
God bless America / John O. Killens
Train whistle guitar / Albert Murray
The Senegalese / Hoyt W. Fuller
A matter of time / Frank London Brown
Cry for me / William Melvin Kelley
Reena / Paule Marshall
The convert / Lerone Bennett, Jr.
The winds of change / Loyle Hairston.

The screamers / LeRoi Jones
Sarah / Martin J. Hamer
The sky is gray / Ernest J. Gaines.