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 --
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 --
On trains / James Allen McPherson --
Marigolds / Eugenia W. Collier --
Steady going up / Maya Angelou --
Everyday use / Alice Walker --
The organizer's wife / Toni Cade Bambara --
Jesse / Rosemarie Robotham --
The wife / Jennifer Jordan.