Contents -- Introduction -- Johnny Ace -- James Agee -- Jessie Daniel Ames -- Roger Nash Baldwin -- George Bancroft -- Béla Bartók -- Sterling A. Brown -- A. P. Carter and Sara Carter -- John Jay Chapman -- Leon F. Czolgosz -- Robert Latou Dickinson -- Dorothy Draper -- Paul Laurence Dunbar -- John England -- Oliver Evans -- Dorothy Fields -- Charles Grandison Finney -- Arthur J. Goldberg -- Emma Goldman -- Adolphus Washington Greely -- Nathanael Greene -- Charles Tomlinson Griffes -- John Hoskins Griscom -- William Halsted -- Fannie Lou Hamer -- Handsome Lake -- Herman Haupt -- DuBose Heyward -- Henry Hornbostel -- James Gibbons Huneker -- Blind Lemon Jefferson -- Murray Kempton -- Walter Lippmann -- Malcolm X -- Rocky Marciano -- Adolf Meyer -- Lindley Murray -- Bronislava Nijinska -- Albert Jay Nock -- Fairfield Porter -- Dawn Powell -- Gisela Richter -- Bayard Rustin -- Sequoyah -- Joseph Smith -- Melvin B.Tolson -- Felix Francisco Varela y Morales -- DeWitt Wallace -- Ida B.Wells-Barnett -- Frank W.Woolworth -- Authors of Articles from the American National Biography -- Sources and Further Readings -- The Selectors.