[v. 1]: The early period, 1847-1938. The Black doctor / Ira Aldridge (1847) -- The brown overcoat / Victor Séjour (1858) -- The escape, or, A leap for freedom / William Wells Brown (1958) -- In Dahomey / Paul Laurence Dunbar and Jesse A. Shipp (1902) -- Star of Ethiopia / W.E.B. du Bois (1912) -- Why we are at war / United States Food Administration (1918) -- Appearances / Garland Anderson (1925) -- Rachel / Angelina Grimké (1916) -- Nine eyes have seen / Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1918) -- Aftermath / Mary Burrill (1919) -- They that sit in darkness / Mary Burrill (1919) -- For unborn children / Myrtle Smith Livingston (1926) -- The church fight / Ruth Gaines-Shelton (1925) -- Undertow / Eulalie Spence (1929) -- The purple flower / Marita Odette (Occomy) Bonner (1928) -- The deacon's awakening / Willis Richardson (1920) -- Balo / Jean Toomer (1922) -- A Sunday morning in the South / Georgia Douglas Johnson (1925) -- 'Cruiter / John Matheus (1926) -- Old Man Pete / Randolph Edmonds (1934) -- Job hunters / H.F.V. Edward (1931) -- Don't you want to be free? / Langston Hughes (1937) -- Big white fog / Theodore Ward (1938) -- The first one / Zora Neale Hurston (1927) -- Graven images / May Miller (1929) -- Natural man / Theodore Browne (1937) -- A soldier's play / Charles Fuller (1981) -- Liberty deferred / John D. Silvera and Abram Hill (1938) --
[v. 2]: The recent period, 1935-today. Mulatto / Langston Hughes (1935) -- Native son / Richard Wright and Paul Green (1941) -- Take a giant step / Louis Peterson (1953) -- A raisin in the sun / Lorraine Hansberry (1959) -- Ceremonies in dark old men / Lonne Elder III (1965) -- The tumult and the shouting / Thomas Pawley (1969) -- Limitations of life / Langston Hughes (1938) -- On Strivers Row / Abram Hill (1939) -- Day of absence / Douglas Turner Ward (1965) -- The amen corner / James Baldwin (1954) -- The confession stone / Owen Dodson (1960) -- Funnyhouse of a Negro / Adrienne Kennedy (1962) -- Wine in the wilderness / Alice Childress (1969) -- For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is not enuf (excerpt) / Ntozake Shange (1976) -- Sally's rape / Robbie McCauley (1989) -- Dutchman / Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) (1964) -- Goin' a Buffalo / Ed Bullins (1966) -- Prayer meeting, or, The first militant preacher / Ben Caldwell (1967) -- Contribution / Ted Shine (1969) -- Blk love song #1 / Kalamu ya Salaam (1969) -- The colored museum / George C. Wolfe (1988) -- The mojo and the sayso / Aishah Rahman (1989) -- Fires in the mirror / Anna Deavere Smith (1992).
