Introduction: Two hundred years of black and white drama / James V. Hatch
The Escape: or, A Leap for Freedom (1858) / William Wells Brown
Peculiar Sam, or The Underground Railroad (1879) / Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
Aunt Betsy's Thanksgiving (c.1914) / Katherine D. Chapman Tillman
Aftermath (1919) / Mary Burrill
Black Vaudeville (c.1920) / Butterbeans and Susie (Jodie and Susie Edwards)
The Chip Woman's Fortune (1923) / Willis Richardson
The First One (1927) / Zora Neale Hurston
Help Wanted (1929) / Joseph S. Mitchell
Tom-Tom (1932) / Shirley Graham
The Sharecropper (1932) / George A. Towns
Nails and Thorns (1933) / May Miller
The Shining Town (1937) / Owen Vincent Dodson
On Strivers Row (1938) / Abram Hill.
