Negro songs. John Henry --
Swing low, sweet chariot --
Nobody knows de trouble I see --
All God's chillun got shoes --
Didn' my Lord deliver Daniel? --
from The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym / Edgar Allan Poe --
Caloya, or, The loves of the driver / William Gilmore Simms --
from Uncle Tom's cabin. Topsy ; The martyr ; [A letter to a friend] / Harriet Beecher Stowe --
from Swallow Barn, or, A sojourn in the Old Dominion. The quarter / John Pendleton Kennedy --
from Leaves of grass. from Song of myself ; from I sing the body electric / Walt Whitman
from the Leaves of grass.
Ethiopia saluting the colors / Walt Whitman --
Benito Cereno / Herman Melville --
from The Old Dominion, or, The Southampton massacre / G.P.R. James --
from The octoroon, or, Life in Louisiana / Dion Boucicault --
from The grandissimes. Palmyre philosophe ; The story of bras-coupé ; Clemence / George Washington Cable --
from The adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) --
Christmas-night in the quarters / Irwin Russell --
from Free Joe, and other Georgian sketches. Free Joe and the rest of the world / Joel Chandler Harris --
from Uncle Remus and his friends. Death and the Negro man / Joel Chandler Harris --
Accountability ; The colored soldiers ; We wear the mask ; Why fades a dream? ; Sympathy ; The news ; Christmas on the plantation ; At candle lightin' time ; The colored band ; Black Samson of Brandywine ; On the dedication of Dorothy Hall ; To the South ; Compensation / Paul Laurence Dunbar --
Po' Sandy ; The passing of Grandison / Charles W. Chestnutt --
The knife / Stephen Crane --
The Congo / Vachel Lindsay --
The song of the smoke ; from The souls of black folk / W.E.B. Dubois --
Nigger Jeff / Theodore Dreiser --
O black and unknown bards ; Go down death : a funeral sermon / James Weldon Johnson --
Summer morn in New Hampshire ; Home thoughts ; Baptism ; If we must die ; The lynching ; Outcast ; The Negro's tragedy ; America ; Harlem shadows ; The white house / Claude McKay --
Yet do I marvel ; A song of praise ; Incident ; Heritage ; From the dark tower ; Black majesty / Countee Cullen --
A black man talks of reaping ; The day-breakers ; Southern mansion / Arna Bontemps --
from The man who became a woman / Sherwood Anderson --
Advent of the slaves / William Carlos Williams --
Red leaves / William Faulkner --
A sequence of servants / James Thurber --
The man who went to Chicago / Richard Wright --
A worn path / Eudora Welty --
For my people / Margaret Walker --
Dark symphony / Melvin B. Tolson --
The other Margaret / Lionel Trilling --
Daybreak in Alabama ; Roland Hayes beaten (Georgia : 1942) ; Railroad Avenue ; Theme for English B ; High to low ; Subway rush hour ; Harlem ; A toast to Harlem ; Temptation ; Lenox Avenue bar / Langston Hughes --
The preacher : ruminates behind the sermon ; People who have no children can be hard ; The bean eaters ; The Chicago defender sends a man to Little Rock ; Medgar Evers / Gwendolyn Brooks --
The art of fiction : an interview / Ralph Ellison --
from Notes of a native son. Stranger in the village / James Baldwin --
from On the road / Jack Kerouac --
Preface to a twenty volume suicide note ; Ostriches & grandmothers ; Way out west ; Notes for a speech ; A poem for black hearts / Le Roi Jones --
from Pinktoes. Excursion in paradox / Chester Himes --
Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor --
Tour 5 ; Runagate runagate / Robert Hayden --
from Soul on ice. On Watts ; Soul food ; On becoming / Eldridge Cleaver.
