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| Preface | |
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| Africa and the Slave Trade | |
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| Taken from the Guinea Coast as a Child | |
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| A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture | |
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| The Horrors of the Middle Passage | |
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| The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano | |
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| A Devout Moslem Sold to the Infidels | |
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| Autobiography | |
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| The African-American Before 1800 | |
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| Blacks Serve the City in a Time of Crisis | |
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| A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People during the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia | |
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| Black People Organize for Self-Protection | |
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| The Rules of the African Society | |
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| A Plea for Federal Protection for Manumitted Slaves in the South | |
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| Petition of Four Free Blacks to the United States House of Representatives, 1797 | |
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| Slavery in the Nineteenth Century | |
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| Rebellion | |
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| The Confessions of Nat Turner | |
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| Life as a Slave | |
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| A Narrative | |
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| An Ingenious Escape from Slavery | |
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| Let My People Go: Spirituals | |
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| Go Down Moses | |
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| All God's Chillun Got Wings | |
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| Steal Away to Jesus | |
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| Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel | |
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| I Thank God I'm Free at Last | |
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| The Free Black Community, 1800-1860 | |
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| The White Church's Oppression of the Black Man | |
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| Our Wretchedness in Consequence of the Preachers of the Religion of Jesus Christ | |
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| Discrimination in the Free States | |
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| Address to a Legislative Committee in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, 1842 | |
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| What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? | |
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| The Civil War and Reconstruction | |
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| Free the Slaves, Then Leave Them Alone | |
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| Educating the Freedmen of the Sea Islands | |
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| Life on the Sea Islands | |
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| Debate on Compulsory Free Public Education for All | |
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| A Record of Proceedings at the Constitutional Convention of South Carolina, 1868 | |
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| Discrimination in Mississippi Elections | |
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| Address to the United States Senate, 1876 | |
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| The Legal Segregation of Free People | |
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| The Areas of Racial Discrimination | |
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| Report of the Committee on Grievances at the State Convention of Colored Men of Texas, 1883 | |
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| Attack on the Supreme Court | |
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| The Outrage of the Supreme Court: A Letter from Henry M. Turner | |
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| Peonage in the South | |
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| The Life Story of a Negro Peon | |
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| The Organization of Protest | |
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| Education before Equality | |
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| The Atlanta Exposition Address, 1895 | |
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| Equality and Education | |
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| Of Mr Booker T. Washington and Others | |
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| Black Men Organize | |
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| The Niagara Movement Declaration of Principles, 1905 | |
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| The NAACP Program for Change | |
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| The Task for the Future-A Program for 1919 | |
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| Why Blacks Must Organize for Legal Rights | |
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| The Waco Horror: A Report on a Lynching | |
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| The Great Migration Brings a New Mood | |
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| Why Blacks Chose to Leave the South | |
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| Letters of African-American Migrants of 1916-1918 | |
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| Black Poets Sing | |
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| "Yet Do I Marvel" | |
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| "Heritage (for Harold Jackman)" | |
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| "I, Too" | |
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| "Dream Variation" | |
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| "Go Down Death-A Funeral Sermon" | |
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| "If We Must Die" | |
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| Free Africa for Africans | |
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| The Negro's Greatest Enemy | |
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| Depression and War: Struggle and Advance | |
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| Domestic Slavery | |
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| The Bronx Slave Market | |
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| March for a Fair Share | |
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| The March on Washington Movement, 1941 | |
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| Battle on the Home Front | |
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| What Caused the Detroit Riots? | |
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| School Desegregation and the Cold War | |
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| Separate Schools are Deliberately Unequal | |
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| Summary of Argument Presented to the Supreme Court of the United States, 1953 and The Supreme Court Decision | |
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| Little Rock Prepares for Desegregation | |
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| Governor Faubus Rouses the Mob | |
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| The Cold War and Black Americans | |
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| The Career of Paul Robeson | |
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| The Nonviolent Civil Rights Movement | |
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| The Student Sit-Ins Begin | |
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| Greensboro, NC, February 1, 1960 | |
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| The Philosophy of Nonviolent Coercion | |
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| Letter from Birmingham Jail | |
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| Black Political Action in the South | |
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| Life in Mississippi: An Interview with Fannie Lou Hamer | |
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| We Shall Overcome: Freedom Songs | |
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| "We Shall Overcome" | |
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| "If You Miss Me from the Back of the Bus" | |
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| "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Round" | |
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| "Freedom is a Constant Struggle" | |
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| The Militant Black Liberation Movement | |
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| Conditions in the Urban Ghetto | |
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| Cries of Harlem | |
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| The Ballot or the Bullet | |
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| Black Revolutionary Nationalism | |
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| The Philosophy and Platform of the Black Panther Party | |
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| The Meaning of Black Power | |
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| Toward Black Liberation | |
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| Consolidation and Reaction | |
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| The Rainbow Coalition | |
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| Speech to the Democratic Convention, 1984 | |
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| Affirmative Action | |
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| The Travail of Black Youth | |
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| Jail Time | |
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| Gangsta Rap and American Culture | |
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| General Reading Suggestions | |