Atlanta Exposition address / Brooker T. Washington -- Of Mr. Brooker T. Washington and others / W. E. B. DuBois -- New Negro / Alain Locke -- Appeal to the conscience of the Black race to see itself / Marcus Garvey -- I tried to be a Communist / Richard Wright -- Poet / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Tradition and the individual talent / T. S. Eliot -- Negro character as seen by white authors / Sterling A. Brown -- Black boys and native sons / Irving Howe -- World and the jug / Ralph Ellison -- Ralph Ellison and the uses of imagination / Robert Bone -- Ralph Ellison and the birth of the anti-hero / William J. Schafer -- Rebirth of the artist / Ellin Horowitz -- Ralph Ellison and the American comic tradition / Earl H. Rovit -- Sight imagery in Invisible man / Alice Bloch -- Whitman and Ellison: older symbols in a modern mainstream / Marvin E. Mengeling -- Ralph Ellison's modern version of Brer Bear and Brer Rabbit in Invisible man / Floyd R. Horowitz -- Politics of Ellison's Booker: Invisible man as symbolic history / Richard Kostelanetz -- Brave words for a startling occasion / Ralph Ellison.