Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Introduction -- A Note on the Text -- Famous American Negroes 1954 -- Contents -- Introduction -- Phillis Wheatley -- Richard Allen -- Ira Aldridge -- Frederick Douglass -- Harriet Tubman -- Booker T. Washington -- Daniel Hale Williams -- Henry Ossawa Tanner -- George Washington Carver -- Robert S. Abbott -- Paul Laurence Dunbar -- W. C. Handy -- Charles C. Spaulding -- A. Philip Randolph -- Ralph Bunche -- Marian Anderson -- Jackie Robinson -- Famous Negro Music Makers 1955 -- Contents -- The Fisk Jubilee Singers -- James Av Bland -- Bert Williams -- Bill Robinson -- Leadbelly -- Jelly Roll Morton -- Roland Hayes -- William Grant Still -- Bessie Smith -- Duke Ellington -- Ethel Waters -- Louis Armstrong -- Marian Anderson -- Bennie Benjamin -- Mahalia Jackson -- Dean Dixon -- Lena Horne -- Famous Jazz Musicians -- Famous Negro Heroes of America 1958 -- Contents -- Esteban -- Crispus Attucks -- Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable -- Paul Cuffe -- Gabriel Prosser -- James P. Beckwourth -- Frederick Douglass -- Harriet Tubman -- Robert Smalls -- Charles Young -- Matthew A. Henson -- Ida B. Wells -- Hugh N. Mulzac -- Henry Johnson -- Dorie Miller -- Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. -- Index.