I. EARLY LITERATURE --Child's reasoning ; Letter to his master, Thomas Auld / Frederick Douglass -- Goophered grapevine / Charles Waddell Chesnutt -- Pary ; Song ; We wear the mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Song of the smoke ; Of the sons of master and man / W.E.B. DuBois -- II. NEGRO AWAKENING -- O black and unknown bards ; Sence you went away / James Weldon Johnson -- New negro / Alain Locke -- America ; White House ; Harlem dancer ; In bondage ; Harlem shadows ; White city ; North and South ; Baptism ; If we must die / Claude McKay -- Esther ; Avey / Jean Toomer -- Miss Cynthie / Rudolph Fisher -- Yellow one / Eric Walrond -- Negro character as seen by white authors / Sterling A. Brown -- Yet do I marvel ; Heritage ; For a poet ; For a pessimist ; For John Keats ; For Paul Laurence Dunbar ; She of the dancing feet sings ; Counter mood ; Song in spite of myself ; Nothing endures ; Magnets ; Sonnet: what I am saying now was said before ; Sonnet: these are no wind-blown rumors, soft say-sos ; To France ; Scottsboro, too, is worth its song / Countee Cullen -- III. MAJOR AUTHORS -- Negro speaks of rivers ; Mulatto ; Negro mother ; Evenin' air blues ; Dream boogie ; On the road ; Dear Dr. Butts ; Jazz, jive, and jam / Langston Hughes -- Man who killed a shadow ; Ethics of living Jim Crow / Richard Wright -- Flying home ; King of the bingo game ; Hidden name and complex fate / Ralph Ellison -- Notes of a native son ; Sonny's blues / James Baldwin -- IV. CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE -- Train whistle guitar / Albert Murray -- Son in the afternoon / John A. Williams -- Brazil / Paule Marshall -- Sky is gray / Ernest J. Gaines -- Cry for me / William Melvin Kelley -- From 'Harlem gallery' / Melvin B. Tolson -- Southern mansion ; Miracles ; Reconnaissance / Arna Bontemps -- Diver ; Frederick Douglass ; Runagate runagate / Robert E. Hayden -- Southern road ; Booker T. and W.E.B. ; Perspectives ; To the mercy killers / Dudley Randall -- For my people ; Molly Means / Margaret A. Walker -- From "The womanhood" in Annie Allen ; Section II of "The womanhood" in Annie Allen ; Egg boiler / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Clown at ten ; Emmett Till ; After the record is broken ; Pause for a fine phrase / James A. Emanuel -- Alarm clock -- And the old women gathered -- When in Rome -- Black jam for dr. negro / Mari Evans -- Preface to a twenty volume suicide note ; Poem for black hearts ; Jitterbugs / Leroi Jones -- Trends in negro American literature (1940-65 / Arthur P. Davis -- Emerson and the South / Philip Butcher -- Society and the self in recent American literature / Nathan A. Scott, Jr. -- Into the mainstream and oblivion / Julian Mayfield