Biographies, critical extracts and bibliographies on significan black American poets and dramatists including William Stanley Braithwaite, William Wells Brown, Joseph Seamon Cotter, Sr., Paul Laurence Dunbar, Jupiter Hammon, Frances E. W. Harper, George Moses Horton, James Weldon Johnson, Oscar Micheaux, Phillis Wheatley, and Albrey Allson Whitman.