Introduction / Herbert Hill --

Essays. Picnic with Sinclair Lewis / Horace R. Cayton ; Letters from a journey / James Baldwin ; Alien land of Richard Wright / Saunders Redding ; Dilemma of the American Negro scholar / John Hope Franklin ; Hide my face?

on Pan-Africanism and Negritude /

St. Clair Drake ; From "I wonder as I wander" : Moscow movie / Langston Hughes --

Fiction. Five episodes / Richard Wright ; Miss Muriel / Ann Petry ; From "Lonely crusade" / Chester Himes ; Rock, church / Langston Hughes ; Out of the hospital and under the bar / Ralph Ellison ; From "Proud shoes" / Pauli Murray ; Life of Lincoln West / Gwendolyn Brooks ; From "Maud Martha" Helen / Gwendolyn Brooks ; From "The system of Dante's Hell" ; Christians ; Rape / LeRoi Jones ; Come home early, Chile / Owen Dodson ; Singing Dinah's song / Frank London Brown ; From "A Touch of innocence" ; Creek / Katherine Dunham ; Rat Joiner routs the Klan / Ted Poston ; Almost white boy / Willard Motley ; From "Go tell it on the mountain" ; Seventh day / James Baldwin ; From "Beetlecreek" / William Demby ; From "The living is easy" / Dorothy West ; From "Thunder at dawn" / Benjamin A. Brown ; Beach umbrella / Cyrus Colter.

Poems. From "A street in Bronzeville" ; Mother ; Song in the front yard ; When you have forgotten Sunday : the love story ; Sundays of Satin-legs Smith / Gwendolyn Brooks ; From "Annie Allen" ; Five poems / Gwendolyn Brooks ; Abraham Lincoln of Rock Spring Farm / M.B. Tolson ; Veracruz / Robert Hayden ; Full Moon / Robert Hayden ; Picnic : the liberated / M. Carl Holman ; Three Brown girls singing / M. Carl Holman ; Mr. Z / M. Carl Holman ; From "Ask your mama" : 12 moods for jazz ; Blues in stereo ; Ask your mama ; Jazztet muted / Langston Hughes ; From "Montage of a dream deferred" ; Dream boogie ; Parade ; Children's rhymes ; Night funeral in Harlem ; Harlem ; Same in blues / Langston Hughes ; Translations from the French / Langston Hughes ; Epigram / Armand Lanusse ; She left herself one evening / Leon Damas ; Flute players / Jean Joseph Rabearivelo ; To a brown girl / Ossie Davis ; Charlie Parker : the human condition / LeRoi Jones ; From "Preface to a twenty volume suicide note" ; Insidious Dr. Fu Man Chu ; New sheriff ; Turncoat / LeRoi Jones ; To Satch (or American gothic) / Paul Vesey ; From "Ivory tusks" ; Moment please / Paul Vesey.