Introduction / Abdul Alkalimat, Romi Crawford, and Rebecca Zorach
I. Looking at the Wall of Respect. Painters, poets, and performance: looking at the Wall of Respect / Rebecca Zorach
Poetry. The Wall / Gwendolyn Brooks
The Wall / Don L. Lee (Haki Madhubuti)
Black culture / Useni Eugene Perkins
Black art spirits / Alicia L. Johnson
II. Heroes and heroines. The heroes and heroines of the Wall of Respect / Abdul Alkalimat, with contributions by Rebecca Zorach
III. The wall in history and cultural politics. Black Chicago: the context for the Wall of respect / Abdul Alkalimat
Black liberation: OBAC and the makers of the Wall of Respect / Abdul Alkalimat
OBAC documents. Invitation letter and statement of purposes / The Committee for the Arts (Gerald A. McWorter, Hoyt W. Fuller, Conrad Rivers)
Black people and their art / Gerald A. McWorter
Festival of the Arts / OBAC
OBAC position paper : some ideological considerations / Gerald A. McWorter
Visual Arts Workshop report / OBAC (prepared by Myrna Weaver and Jeff Donaldson)
OBAC : Organization of Black American Culture ("all-purpose handout") / Gerald A. McWorter
An invitation to OBAC dialogues : rappin' Black / Joseph Simpson
By-laws of the Organization of Black American Culture / Hoyt W. Fuller and Gerald A. McWorter
Who is on the wall and why / Gerald A. McWorter
What is a Black hero? / OBAC
Black heroes / OBAC Officer transition (memorandum) / OBAC
OBAC progress meeting (letter) / Hoyt W. Fuller and Joseph Simpson
Black Arts Movement articles. Culture consciousness in Chicago / Hoyt W. Fuller
The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians / Muhal Richard Abrams and John Shenoy Jackson
OBAC: a year later / Hoyt W. Fuller
Toward a Black aesthetic / Hoyt W. Fuller
IV. The impact of photography. Black photographers who take Black pictures / Romi Crawford
Camera works and the Wall of Respect / Romi Crawford
V. Reverberations. Conflict and change on the Wall / Rebecca Zorach
Reverberations. Wall paintings on 43d St. show Black man's triumph / Sam Washington, The Defender, August 28, 1967
Crowds gather as 'Wall' is formally dedicated / Dave Potter, The Defender, October 2, 1967
Wall of Respect : artists paint images of Black dignity in heart of city ghetto / Ebony, December 1967
The rise, fall, and legacy of the Wall of Respect movement / Jeff Donaldson, The International review of African American art, 1991
Interview with William Walker (excerpt) / Victor Sorell, June 1991
William Walker discusses the Wall : Chicago mural group conversation, 1971
Interview with Eugene "Eda" Wade (excerpt) / Rebecca Zorach and Marissa Baker, 2015
The Wall of Respect : how Chicago artists gave birth to the ethnic mural / Norman Parish III, Chicago tribune, August 23, 1992
Wall of Respect symposium (excerpt) / opening address by Romi Crawford and Roundtable discussion, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, April 2015
The Wall / Roger Bonair-Asgard.
