1. Richard Allen and the African church movement/ Albert J. Raboteau.
2. Nat Turner: the unknown slave as visionary leader/ Peter H. Wood.
3. Harriet Tubman's unlikely leadership/ Benjamin Quarles.
4. Frederick Douglass: humanist as race leader/ Waldo E. Martin, jr.
5. Mary Ann Shadd and the search for equality/ Jason H. Silverman.
6. John Mercer Langston: principle and politics/ William Cheek and Aimee Lee Cheek.
7. A last stern struggle: Henry Highland Garnet and liberation theory/ Sterling Stuckey.
8. Martin R. Delany: elitism and Black nationalism/ Nell Irvin Painter.
9. Peter Humphries Clark: the dialogue of hope and despair/ David A. Gerber.
10. Three Reconstruction leaders: Blanche K. Bruce, Robert Brown Elliott, and Holland Thompson/ Howard N. Rabinowitz.
11. Black Reconstruction leaders at the grass roots/ Eric Foner.
12. Alexander Crummell: Black nationalist and apostle of western civilization/ Alfred Moss.
13. The education of Henry McNeal Turner/ John Dittmer.
14. William Henry Steward: moderate approach to Black leadership/ George C. Wright.
15. Isaiah T. Montgomery's balancing act/ Janet Sharp Hermann.
16. Mary Church Terrell: genteel militant/ Sharon Harley.
