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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction : "the great American protest" | |
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| Origins of the great migration | |
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| Wartime opportunities in the north | |
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| The promised land? | |
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| Wartime black leaders, the new Negro, and grassroots politics | |
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| Racial violence and the postwar reaction to black activism | |
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| Consequences of the migration | |
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| The documents | |
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| The great migration begins | |
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| The migration of Negroes, June 1917 | |
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| The Negro exodus : a Southern woman's view, March 18, 1917 | |
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| How much is the migration a flight from persecution? : September 1923 | |
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| 1100 Negroes desert Savannah, Georgia, August 11, 1916 | |
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| Luring labor north, August 22, 1916 | |
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| Negroes urged to remain in south, November 25, 1916 | |
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| Negro migration, August 1, 1917 | |
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| The promised land? | |
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| The arrival in Chicago, 1922 | |
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| Read this before you move north, April 5, 1917 | |
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| Negroes a source of industrial labor, August 1918 | |
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| The Negro in the north, June 4, 1917 | |
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| The massacre of east St. Louis, September 1917 | |
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| Thousands march in silent protest, August 4, 1917 | |
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| The evolution of black politics | |
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| The patriotism of the Negro, May 4, 1917 | |
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| Close ranks, July 1918 | |
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| Negro conscription, October 20, 1917 | |
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| Protest to Boston Herald, April 20, 1918 | |
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| Houston : an NAACP investigation, November 1917 | |
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| Racial clashes, July 26, 1919 | |
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| League asks full manhood rights, May 19, 1917 | |
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| The heart of the south, May 1917 | |
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| Reconstruction and the Negro, February 1919 | |
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| Migration and political power, July 1918 | |
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| What we believe, January 1, 1924 and The principles of the universal Negro improvement association, November 25, 1922 | |
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| New leadership for the Negro, May-June 1919 | |
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| If we must die, September 1919 | |
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| The new Negro, June 2, 1920 | |
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| Letter to president Woodrow Wilson, May 29, 1918 | |
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| Campaign for women nearing its close, November 1, 1917 | |
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| Negro women seek permission to vote, November 3, 1920 | |
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| Black workers and the wartime home front | |
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| Trades unions, March 1918 | |
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| From Alabama : colored miners anxious for organization, June 1, 1916 | |
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| The Birmingham case, 1918 | |
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| Negro organizer tarred, Tune, 14, 1918 | |
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| Negro strikers return to work, October 3, 1918 | |
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| Colored women of Houston organize, May 6, 1916 | |
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| Negro washerwomen to have union wage scale, October 10, 1918 | |
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| Workers strike in laundries to get higher pay, April 23, 1918 | |
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| Negro women are under arrest in laundry strike, April 25, 1918 | |
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| Negro women living in idleness must go to work or to jail, October 17, 1918 | |
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| Negroes to demand work at Charleston navy yard, May 19, 1917 | |
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| Opportunities and obstacles in the postwar era | |
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| Views and reviews : now comes the test, November 23, 1918 | |
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| Reconstruction and the colored woman, January 1919 | |
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| Letters from the U.S. Department of Labor case files, 1919 | |
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| Bogalusa, January 1920 | |
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| Colored labor delegation demands rights in Alabama, February 28, 1920 | |
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| Negroes in the unions, August 1925 | |
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| The rights of the black man, August 2, 1919 | |
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| Race riots in Chicago, July 28, 1919 | |
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| Chicago in the nation's race strife, August 9, 1919 | |
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| Slowly restore order today in riot districts, October 3, 1919 | |
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| The race conflict in Arkansas, December 13, 1919 | |
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| How the Arkansas peons were freed, July 28, 1923 | |
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| Postwar migration | |
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| "Chi" Negroes ask to return to Mississippi, August 1, 1919 | |
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| Negroes who come to south are better off, August 24, 1919, and find the southern Negro prosperous, October 5, 1919 | |
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| Why southern Negroes don't go south, November 29, 1919 | |
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| Mighty exodus continues; cause not economic, July 22, 1920 | |
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| These "colored" United States, December 1923 | |
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| Negro migration : its effect on family and community life in the north, October 1924 | |
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| The new Negro, 1925 | |
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| Chronology of events related to the great migration (1865-1925) | |
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| Questions for consideration | |
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| App: Selected bibliography | |
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| Index | |