Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Contents by Date; Peter Williams (1786-1840); Absalom Jones (1746-1818); James Forten (1766-1842); Samuel Cornish (1795-1858)and John Russwurm (1799-1851); Amos Beman (1812-1874); George Moses Horton (1797-1883?); David Walker (1796?-1830); Maria W. Stewart (1803-1879); Sarah Mapps Douglass (1806-1882); Ann Plato (1824-?); Frederick Douglass (1818-1895); William Wells Brown(ca. 1814-1884); James McCune Smith (1813-1865); William J. Wilson (1818-?); James Monroe Whitfield(1822-1871); Joseph C. Holly (1825-1855)
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)Peter Randolph (1825?-1897); Elymas Payson Rogers (1815-1861); J.W. Loguen (1813-1872); Martin R. Delany (1812-1885); Harriet E. Wilson (1825?-1863?); Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897); John Willis Menard (1838-1893); Solomon G. Brown (1829-1906); J. Anderson Raymond (?-?); Edmonia Goodelle Highgate (1844-1870); Alexander Crummell (1819-1898); Henrietta Cordelia Ray(1849-1916); Timothy Thomas Fortune(1856-1928); Charles Waddell Chesnutt(1858-1932); Josephine D. Henderson Heard (1861-1921); Anna Julia Cooper (1858?-1964); David Bryant Fulton (1863?-1941)
Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931)Fannie Barrier Williams(1855-1944); Amanda Smith (1837-1915); Katherine Davis Tillman (1870-?); Richard Theodore Greener(1844-1922); Victoria Earle Matthews(1861-1907); Daniel Webster Davis (1862-1913); Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906); Olivia Ward Bush-Banks(1869-1944); Sutton E. Griggs (1872-1933); William Hannibal Thomas(1843-1935); A Gude Deekun (?-?); James D. Corrothers (1869-1917); Benjamin Griffith Brawley (1882-1939); Ruth D. Todd (1878-?); William Stanley Braithwaite (1878-1962); Augustus Hodges (1854-?); Marie Louise Burgess-Ware(ca. 1870-?)
W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963)Effie Waller Smith (1879-1960); Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954); Kelly Miller (1863-1939); Thomas Horatius Malone(ca. 1872-?); Priscilla Jane Thompson(1871-1942); Clara Ann Thompson (1869-1949); S. Laing Williams (1863-?); Joseph Seamon Cotter (1861-1949); Maggie Pogue Johnson(1880?-1957?); Bibliography of Included Works; Biographical Sources; Secondary Sources; index; Contents by Genre; SERMONS AND SPEECHES; ESSAYS AND JOURNALISM; AUTOBIOGRAPHY; FICTION; POETRY
