Table of Contents is in Approximate Chronological Order of the Author's Birth Dates
The Sheriff's Children/Charles W. Chesnutt
The Scapegoat/Paul Laurence Dunbar
Miss Cynthie/Rudolph Fisher
The Wharf Rats/Eric Walrond
A Summer Tragedy/Arna Bontemps
Thank You, M'am/Langston Hughes
The Gilded Six-Bits/Zora Neale Hurston
The Revolt of the Evil Fairies/Ted Poston
Almos' a Man/Richard Wright
Marihuana and Pistol/Chester b. Himes
The Beach Umbrella/Cyrus Colter
The Richer, The Poorer/Dorothy West
The Almost White Boy/Willard Motley
Afternoon Into Night/Katherine Dunham
Flying Home/Ralph Ellison
Come Home Early, Chile/Owen Dodson
Santa Claus Is a White Man/John Henrik Clarke
The Stick Up/John Oliver Killens
We're The Only Colored People Here/Gwendolyn Brooks
The Pocketbook Game/Alice Childress
The Checkerboard/Alston Anderson
This Morning, This Evening, so Soon/James Baldwin
See How they run/Mary Elizabeth Vroman
The Blue Begins/Sylvester Leaks
Son in the Afternoon/John A. Williams
Singing Dinah's Song/Frank London Brown
Duel With the Clock/Junius Edwards
The Day the World almost Came to an End/Peal Crayton
An Interesting Social Study/Kristin Hunter
Quietus/Charlie Russell-Mother to son/Conrad Kent Rivers
A Long Day in November/Ernest J. Gaines
Miss Luhester Gives a Party/Ronald Fair
The Death of Tommy Grimes/R.J. Meaddough III
Old Blue Singers Never Die/Clifford Vincent Johnson
The Only Man on Liberty Street/William Melvin Kelley
Beautiful Light and Black Our Dreams/Woodie King, Jr.
Red Bonnet/Lindsay Patterson
The Burglar/Lebert Bethune
Junkie-Joe Had some Money/Ronald Milner
Direct Action/Mike Thelwell
The Engagement Party/Robert Boles
To Hell With Dying/Alice Walker
