Jodi Dean and Charisse Burden-Stelly

Introduction
Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean

Section 1: The Early Years
Editors’ introduction
Grace P. Campbell, "Women Offenders and the Day Court"
Williana Burroughs, "Negro Work Has Not Been Entirely Successful"
Grace P. Campbell (writing as Grace Lamb), "How Shall the Negro Woman Vote?"
Williana Burroughs, "Trade Union Work Report"
Williana Burroughs, "Work Among Negro Women", "Woman and Child Labor in the Colonies", "Negro Women in Industry"

Section 2: Labor, Militancy and Organizing
Editors’ introduction
Maude White, "Special Negro Demands"
Thyra Edwards, "Let Us Have More Like Mr. Sopkins"
Williana Burroughs, "Women’s Department"
Ella Baker & Marvel Cooke, "The Bronx Slave Market"
Louise Thompson, "Toward a Brighter Dawn"
Thyra Edwards, "Attitudes of Negro Families On Relief – Another Opinion"
Marvel Cooke, "She Was in Paris and Forgot Chanel"
Louise Thompson, "Negro Women in Our Party"
Thyra Edwards, "Food Gets Scarcer and Scarcer On Spanish Front, Says Writer Miss Thyra Edwards Tells Dramatic Story of Experiences in the War-Torn Country; Winter Rushing On"
Louise Thompson Patterson, "Excerpt from Memoirs on Scottsboro Boys Organizing"
Esther Cooper Jackson, "The Negro Women Domestic Worker in Relation to Trade Unionism"

Section 3: Against Fascism
Editors’ introduction
Esther Cooper Jackson, "Negro Youth Organizing for Victory"
Thelma Dale, "Reconversion and the Negro People"
Claudia Jones, "On the Right to Self-Determination for the Negro People in the Black Belt"
Thelma Dale, "The Status of Negro Women in the United States of America"
Claudia Jones, "For New Approaches to Our Work Among Women"
Claudia Jones, "International Women’s Day and the Struggle for Peace"

Section 4: International Peace Activism
Editors’ introduction
Vicki Garvin, "Union Leader Challenges Progressive American"
Sojourners for Truth and Justice, "Proclamation of the Sojourners for Truth and Justice"
Dorothy Hunton, "Where Are YOU Hiding"
Lorraine Hansberry, "Egyptian People Fight for Freedom"
Sojourners for Truth and Justice, "Our Cup Runneth Over"
Lorraine Hansberry, "’Illegal’ Conference Shows Peace Is the Key to Freedom"
Eslanda Goode Robeson, "Southern Officers Treat Korean POWS Like Negroes in the South"
Dorothy Burnham, "Southern Tenants and ‘Croppers Talk About Need for Organizing"
Yvonne Gregory, "Pearl Bailey Incident Recalls Life and Death of Bessie Smith"
Charlotta Bass, "Acceptance Speech of Mrs. Bass"
Esther Cooper Jackson, "This is My Husband: Fighter for His People, Political Refugee"

Section 5: Struggling Against White Supremacy and Anti-Communism
Editors’ introduction
Eslanda Goode Robeson, "Unrest in Africa Due to Oppression"
Dorothy Burnham, "American Women Join World Peace Crusade"
Alice Childress, "A Conversation From Life"
Eslanda Goode Robeson, Introduction to Ben Davis: Fighter for Freedom
Claudia Jones, Excerpt from Ben Davis: Fighter for Freedom
Vicki Garvin, "White Advocates of Negro Freedom Continue Tradition of John Brown"
Vicki Garvin, "New Hope for Negro Labor"
Dorothy Hunton, "Prison: The Bail Fund Affair"
Charlotta Bass, "In Retrospect: An Attack - An Answer"