Introduction / Darryl Dickson-Carr
Hope deferred / Alice Dunbar-Nelson
The closing door / Angelina Weld Grimké
Mary Elizabeth / Jessie Redmon Fauset
The comet / W.E.B. Du Bois
The foolish and the wise : Sallie Runner is introduced to Socrates ; The foolish and the wise : Sanctum 777 N.S.D.C.O.U. meets Cleopatra / Leila Amos Pendleton
Becky ; Esther / Jean Toomer
Vignettes of the dusk / Eric Walrond
Blue aloes ; Slackened caprice / Ottie B. Graham
The city of refuge / Rudolph Fisher
The golden penknife / S. Miller Johnson
Mademoiselle 'Tasie / Eloise Bibb Thompson
Grist in the mill / Wallace Thurman
Hannah Byde / Dorothy West
Muttsy ; The Eatonville anthology / Zora Neale Hurson
Cordelia the crude / Wallace Thurman
Smoke, lilies and jade / Richard Bruce Nugent
Wedding day / Gwendolyn B. Bennett
Lynching for profit / George S. Schuyler
Masks / Eloise Bibb Thompson.
Bathesda of Sinners Run / Maude Irwin Owens
He must think it out / Florida Ruffin Ridley
Anthropoi / John E. Matheus
Prologue to a life / Dorothy West
Cross crossings cautiously / Anita Scott Coleman
Why Adam at the apple / Mercedes Gilbert
The needle's point / J. Saunders Redding
Crazy Mary / Claude McKay
His last day / Chester Himes
Barrel staves / Arna Bontemps
Why, you reckon ; Spanish blood / Langston Hughes
John Archer's nose / Rudolph Fisher
Mob madness / Marion Vera Cuthbert
Gesture / Georgia Douglas Johnson
Pope Pius the only / Richard Bruce Nugent
The return of a modern prodical / Octavia B. Wynbush
Hate is nothing ; The whipping / Marita Bonner
A modern fable / Chester Himes
A matter of record / Ted Poston
Girl, Colored / Marian Minus.
