One hundred years of negro entertainment / Allan Morrison – Goodbye, Mister Bones / Gerald Bradley – The negro and the American stage / Alain Locke – The drama of negro life / Montgomery Gregory – The gift of laughter / Jessie Fauset – Musical comedy / Maud Cuney-Hare – Clorindy, the origin of the cakewalk / Will Marion Cook – The negro playwright on Broadway / Raoul Abdul – The negro dramatist’s image of the universe, 1920-1960 / Darwin T. Turner – A woman playwright speaks her mind / Alice Childress – American theater: for whites only? / Douglas Turner Ward – How I became a playwright / Garland Anderson – The chip woman’s fortune / Willis Richardson – The Federal Theater / Sterling A. Brown – Karamu / Arna Bontemps and Jack Conroy – The Free Southern Theater: an evaluation / Tom Dent – The negro actor attempts legitimate / Sterling A. Brown – James Baldwin on the negro actor / James Baldwin – The tattered queens / Ruby Dee – The negro actor / Ray Rogers – Problems facing negro actors / Woodie King, Jr. – Young actor on the way up Robert Burg – Integration on Broadway / Lindsay Patterson – Problems and prospects / Frederick O’Neal – The need for Afro-American theater / Langston Hughes – Purlie Told Me! / Ossie Davis – The need for a Harlem theater / Jim Williams – The negro theater and the Harlem community / Loften Mitchell – Porgy and Bess: a folk opera? / Hall Johnson – History and theater / Martin Duberman – That Boy LeRoi / Langston Hughes – One of our national treasures / Arthur Todd – The negro in American films / Carlton Moss – The coming of the sound film / Peter Noble – The waste lands / Lindsay Patterson – Funnyhouse of a negro / Adrienne Kennedy.
