Forewords / Frances Morris, Rod Bigelow ; Anne Pasternak

Introduction / Mark Godfrey and Zoé Whitley

Part I. Spiral to FESTAC / Mark Godfrey and Zoé Whitley with contributions by Susan E. Cahan : Spiral and the March on Washington

Art and unrest in Los Angeles

Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal and the Black Arts Movement

Roy DeCarava and the Kamoinge Workshop

The Wall of Respect and the mural movement

Emory Douglas and the Black Panther Party newspaper

Painting Black Power

'Black Art' debates in pamphlets and magazines

The Studio Museum in Harlem

The Black Emergency Cultural Coalition

Abstraction shows

AfriCOBRA

Three graphic artists

Contemporary Black artists in America

Black women artists

Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin

Avant-garde filmmakers

Rituals in Los Angeles

Just above Midtown

The Black Photographers Annual

FESTAC '77

Part II. Essays : Notes on Black abstraction / Mark Godfrey

American skin: artists on Black figuration / Zoé Whitley

Part III. Recollections : Samella Lewis ; Edmund Barry Gaither ; David C. Driskell ; Jae and Wadsworth Jarrell ; Linda Goode Bryant.