The meaning of spirituals / Howard Thurman – Of the sorrow songs / W. E. B. DuBois – Spirituals and neo-spirituals / Zora Neale Hurston – The source / Maud Cuney Hare – The age of minstrelsy / Alain Locke – Post-Minstrel negro songmakers / James Weldon Johnson – The Blues / E. Simms Campbell – Memphis Blues: a bungled bargain / W. C. Handy – Rock, church, rock! / Arna Bontemps – New Orleans music / William Russell and Stephen W. Smith – New York turns on the heat / Wilder Hobson – Modern jazz is folk music that started with the blues / Frank M. Davis – Cool jazz – Rhythm and blues (rock and roll) makes the grade / Ralph J. Gleason – Popular negro composers / Jack Yellen – Bessie Smith / George Hoefer – Billie Holiday / Charles Edward Smith – Popular singers – Marian Anderson / David Ewen – Leontyne Price – The negro in opera / Phil Petri – Musical pioneers / Maud Cuey Hare – The current scene / Raoul Abdul – A reminiscence / Margaret Bonds – Elective affinities: American negro singers and German leider / Richard Plant – Primitive negro sculpture and its influence on modern civilization – Negro’s art lives in his wrought iron – The American negro as craftsman and artist – The negro artist and modern art / Romare Bearden – Negro art and the Depression / Vernon Winslow – Negro art in Chicago / Willard F. Morely – Advance on the art front – The Harmon Awards – Negro artists gain recognition after long battle – Four rebels in art – Magic stones and totem poles – Artists of the sixties – Contemporary artists.
