A collection of short stories by Black Americans.

Paul Laurence Dunbar -- the Lynching of Jube Benson / W.E.B. Du Bois -- On Being Crazy / Charles Waddell Chesnutt -- The Goophered Grapevine / Rudolph Fisher -- The City Of Refuge / John P. Davis -- The Overcoat / Claude McKay -- Truant / Arna Bontemps -- A Summer Tragedy / Zora Neale Hurston -- The Gilded Six-Bits / Richard Wright -- Bright and Morning Star / John Henrik Clarke -- The Boy Who Painted Christ Black / Langston Hughes -- One Friday Morning / Carl Ruthven Offord -- So Peaceful in the Country / Sterling Brown -- And/Or / John Caswell Smith -- Fighter / Frank Yerby -- The Homecoming / Arthur P. Davis -- How John Boscoe Outsung the Devil / Ann Petry -- Solo on the Drums / Chester Himes -- Mama's Missionary Money / Mary Elizabeth Vroman -- See How They Run / John O. Killens -- God Bless America / Albert Murray -- Train Whistle Guitar / Hoyt W. Fuller -- The Senegalese / Frank London Brown -- A Matter of Time / Willima Melvin Kelley -- Cry for Me / Paule Marshall -- Reena / Lerone Bennett, Jr. -- The Convert / Loyle Hairston -- The Winds of Change / LeRoi Jones -- The Screamers / Martin J. Hamer -- Sarah / Ernest J. Gaines -- The Sky Is Gray / James Alan McPherson -- On Trains / Eugenia W. Collier -- Marigolds / Maya Angelou -- Steady Going Up / Alice Walker -- Everyday Use / Toni Cade Bambara -- The Organizer's Wife / Rosemarie Robotham -- Jesse / Jennifer Jordan -- The Wife.