Table of Contents:
  • Introduction by Richard Wright
  • Introduction to the 1962 Edition by Everett C. Hughes
  • Introduction: Midwest Metropolis
  • Vol. 1. PART I. 1. Flight to Freedom
  • 2. Land of Promise
  • 3. The Great Migration
  • 4. Race Riot and Aftermath
  • 5. Between Two Wars
  • PART II. 6. Along the Color-Line
  • 7. Crossing the Color-Line
  • 8. The Black Ghetto
  • 9. The Job Ceiling
  • 10. The Shifting Line of Color
  • 11. Democracy and Economic Necessity: Breaking the Job Ceiling
  • 12. Democracy and Economic Necessity: Black Workers and the New Unions
  • 13. Democracy and Political Expediency
  • Appendix: Black Metropolis 1961
  • Postscript 1969
  • Vol. 2. PART III. 14. Bronzeville
  • 15. The Power of Press and Pulpit
  • 16. Negro Business: Myth and Fact
  • 17. Business Under a Cloud
  • 18. The Measure of the Man
  • 19. Style of Living-Upper Class
  • 20. Lower Class: Sex and Family
  • 21. The World of the Lower Class
  • 22. The Middle-class Way of Life
  • 23. Advancing the Race
  • PART IV. 24. Of Things to Come
  • Bronzeville 1961
  • A Methodological Note by W. Lloyd Warner
  • Notes and Documentation
  • A List of Selected Books Dealing with the American Negro
  • Suggestions for Collateral Reading, 1962
  • Suggestions for Collateral Reading, 1969.