James Madison Bell -- William Stanley Braithwaite -- William Wells Brown -- James Edwin Campbell -- Charles Waddell Chesnutt -- James D. Corrothers -- Joseph Seamon Cotter, Sr. -- Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr. -- Martin Robinson Delany -- Frederick Douglass -- W.E.B. Du Bois -- Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa) -- Charlotte L. Forten -- Sutton Elbert Griggs -- Angelica Weld Grimké -- Jupiter Hammon -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Walter Everette Hawkins -- Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins -- George Moses Horton -- Fenton Johnson -- George Marion McClellan -- James E. McGirt -- Oscar Micheaux -- Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson -- Henrietta Cordelia Ray -- Victor Séjour (Juan Victor Séjour Marcou et Ferrand) -- Frank J. Webb -- Phillis Wheatley -- James Monroe Whitfeld -- Albery Allson Whitman -- Harriet E. Adams Wilson
Summary
Presents a corollary history of the publishing outlets and efforts of early Afro-American writers writing in the 1920s or before; focuses on how resourceful black writers had to be in order to get their works to the reading public before more substantial and self-sustaining publishing outlets were established
