Contents, Alphabetically by Title
- Aunt Phebe, Uncle Tom and others Essie Collins Matthews
- Black Manhattan James Weldon Johnson
- Broadsides New England Loyal Publication Society
- Don't you turn back Langston Hughes
- Ebony and topaz, a collecteana
- Existing conflict between Republican Government and Southern Oligarchy Green B. Raum
- Father Henson's story of his life Josiah Henson
- The Freedman's Book Lydia M. F. Child
- Giovanni's Room James Baldwin
- The Haunting hand Walter Adolphe Roberts
- History of the first African Baptist Church Emmanuel King Love
- I a.m. the American Negro Frank Marshall Davis
In spite of handicaps Ralph W. Bullock
- Iola Leroy: or shadow uplifted Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
- Letters Langston Hughes
- Letters Booker T. Washington
- Moses, man of the mountain Zora Neale Hurston
- Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave Sojourner Truth
- Narrative of the life and adventures of Henry Bibb Henry Bibb
- Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave Frederick Douglass
- Narrative of William Hayden William Hayden
- Poet and other poems Raymond Dandridge
- Priceless jewels Stanford Davis
- Prince of Washington Square Harry F. Liscomb
- Real Henry Norman
- Rhymes, tales and rhymed tales J. Mord Allen
- Scottsboro limited ; four poems and a play in verse Langston Hughes
- The Sunday school and other poems William B. Tappan
- Sweet flypaper of life Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
- The system of Dante's hell Imamu Amiri Baraka
- These low grounds Waters E. Turpin
- Toiler's life Edward Nathaniel Harleston
- Who speaks for the Negro? Robert Penn Warren
- Zalka Peetruza and other poems Raymond Dandridge
