Foreword / by L. Hollingsworth Wood -- Introduction / by Charle S. Johnson -- Jumby, a story / by Arthur Huff Fauset -- On the road one day, lord / by Paul Green -- Dusk, a poem / by Mae V. Cowdery -- Divine afflatus, a poem / by Jessie Fauset -- General drums, a story by / John Matheus -- Gullah / by Julia Peterkin -- Requiem, a poem / by Georgia Douglas Johnson -- Foreclosure, a poem / by Sterling A. Brown -- Dreamer, a poem / by Langston Hughes -- The dunes, a poem / by E. Merrill Root -- Eighteenth street, an anthology in color / by Nathan Ben Young -- John Henry, a Negro legend / by Guy B. Johnson -- Things said when he was gone, a poem / by Blanche Taylor Dickinson -- April is on the way, a poem / by Alice Dunbar Nelson -- The first one, a play in one act / by Zora Neale Hurston -- This place, a poem / by Donald Jeffrey Hayes -- Three poems / by Countee Cullen -- New light on an old song / by Dorothy Scarborough -- La perla negra / by Edna Worthley Underwood -- The Negro of the jazz band / translated from the Spanish of Jose M. Salaverria by Dorothy Peterson -- Idolatry, a poem / by Arna Bontemps -- To Clarissa Scott Delany, a poem / by Angelina W. Grimke -- Juan Latino, magister Latinus / by Arthur A. Schomberg -- And one shall live in two, a poem / by Jonathan H. Brooks -- A poem / by Phillis Wheatley -- The runaway slave at Pilgrim's Point / by Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- The natural history of race prejudice / by Ellsworth Faris -- Facsimiles of original manuscripts by Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Sybil warns her sister, a poem / by Anne Spencer -- Some observations on the American race problem / by Eugene Kinckle Jones -- Arabesque, a poem / by Frank Horne -- Phantom color line / by T. Arnold Hill -- The changing status of the mulatto / by E.B. Reuter -- Suffrage / by William Pickens -- Consecration, a poem / by Lois Augusta Cuglar -- Undergraduate verse, Fiske University -- Our little renaissance / by Alain Locke -- My heart has known its winter, a poem / by Arna Bontemps -- Racial self-expression / by E. Franklin Frazier -- Our greatest gifts to America / by George S. Schuyler -- Effigy, a poem / by Lewis Alexander -- The Negro actor's deficit /by Theophilus Lewis -- Two poems / by Edward S. Silvera -- Duncancon / by W. P. Dabney -- Youth, a poem / by Frank Horne -- The prospects of a black bourgeoisie / by Abram Harris -- To a young poet, a poem / by George Chester Morse -- A page of undergraduate verse, Shaw University, Lincoln University, Tougaloo College, Howard University -- Verisimilitude, a story / by John P. Davis -- Mrs. Bailey pays the rent / by Ira DeA. Reid -- A sonnet to a Negro in Harlem, a poem / by Helene Johson -- Tokens, a story / by Gwendolyn Bennett -- A page of undergraduate verse, Tougaloo College, Cleveland College of Western Reserve University -- The return, a poem / by Arna Bontemps -- I / by Brenda Ray Moryck -- A glorious company / by Allison Davis -- A student I know, a poem / by Jonathan H. Brooks -- And I passed by / by Joseph Maree Andrew -- Who's who.