Cable, George Washington: [3] 59-61; [10] 134
--John March, Southerner: [3] 60-61

Cabot, John: [39] 143, 145-146

Cabrera, Lydia: [39] 337-349
--Cuentos negros: [39] 337, 340, 342-344, 347-348 

Caldwell, Ben: [8] 220
--Prayer Meeting: [8] 220

Caldwell, Erskine: [10] 134-135
--Georgia Boy: [10] 135
--"The People vs. Abe Latham": [10] 135

Caleb, J. Rufus: [18] 113-116
--Benny's Place: [18] 113-116
--City Lights: [18] 116

Callahan, Bob: [12] 8, 11

Calloway, Cab: [20] 167, 196

calypsos: [23] 61-88

Campbell, Bebe Moore: [31] 369-372; [34] 329-346
--Brothers and Sisters: [31] 369-372

Camus, Albert: [20] 33, 38-39
--The Stranger: [20] 33, 38-39

Carby, Hazel V.: [39] 299, 308, 345; [40] 226, 259, 429-430, 444, 448-449, 759
--Race Men: [40] 259
--Reconstructing Motherhood: [40] 444

Carmichael, Hoagy: [20] 181

Carpentier, Alejo: [24] 179-181, 183
--El reino de este mundo: [24] 179-181, 183

Carretta, Vince: [40] 402

Carroll, Vinnette: [25] 75-76
--Trumpets of the Lord: [25] 75
--Your Arms Too Short to Box with God: [25] 76

Carter, Benny: [20] 167, 196

Carter, Ron: [25] 640

Carter, Steve: [11] 115
--Eden: [11] 115

Cartiér, Xam Wilson: [24] 791-802
--Be-Bop, Re-Bop: [24] 791-802

Cartwright, S. A.: [39] 519

Cary, Lorene: [31] 554-556
--The Price of a Child: [31] 554-556

Cary, Mary Ann Shadd: [40] 813-816
--"The Last Words of Peter Poyas": [40] 816-817

Castro, Fidel: [27] 594-596

Catti: [19] 42-43

Césaire, Aimé: [24] 183; [40] 153-154
--La tragédie du roi Christophe: [24] 183

Chambers, Paul: [25] 640

Chamoiseau, Patrick: [33] 722-724
--Solibo Magnificent: [33] 722-724

Chandler, Raymond: [38] 493-494, 497
--The Big Sleep: [38] 493
--The High Window: [38] 493-494

Charles, Ray: [20] 167, 196

Chase-Riboud, Barbara: [40] 508, 512-514, 516-518, 520-521, 523-524, 528
--Sally Hemings: [40] 508, 512-523-526, 528

Chaucer, Geoffrey: [39] 202
--"The Merchant's Tale": [39] 202

Chesnutt, Charles W.: [2] 21-25; [3] 52-56; [7] 83-88; [9] 57-58, 105-108; [10] 89; [11] 3-6, 8, 75-78, 81, 82; [12] 143, 155-156; [13] 13-17; [15] 33-35, 75-76; [19] 61-62; [25] 665-688; [29] 519-521; [33] 164-165, 231-243, 408-413, 706-707; [34] 167-169, 363-364, 461-473; [35] 154-155, 487-488; [36] 5-20; [37] 5-20, 553-568; [38] 216-217, 442, 448; [39] 432, 441-443, 448, 451; [40] 687
--"Baxter's Procrustes": [11] 75-78
--The Conjure Woman: [9] 106-107; [11] 3-6, 81; [13] 13-17; [25] 665-688; [37] 5-20; [38] 216
--"The Conjurer's Revenge": [25] 675-676
--"The Deep Sleeper": [9] 106-108
--"The Goophered Grapevine": [7] 86-88; [13] 13-14; [25] 670-671; [37] 7-12
--"The Gray Wolf's Ha'nt": [13] 16; [25] 668-669, 680-683; [37] 16-18
--"Hot-Foot Hannibal": [25] 668, 683-685
--The House Behind the Cedars: [33] 408-413; [38] 442, 448; [39] 432
--Mandy Oxendine: [33] 706-707; [37] 553-568; [39] 433
--The Marrow of Tradition: [3] 53-54; [19] 61-62; [33] 231-243; [38] 217; [40] 687
--"Mars Jeems's Nightmare": [25] 667, 673-675
--"A Matter of Principle": [3] 52-53
--"The Passing of Grandison": [9] 108; [39] 441-443, 451
--Paul Marchand, F. M. C.: [34] 363-364
--"Po' Sandy": [13] 17; [25] 667-668, 671-673; [37] 12-16
--"The Sheriff's Children": [2] 21-25; [7] 83-85
--"Sis' Becky's Pickaninny": [13] 16; [25] 676-680
--"The Web of Circumstance": [36] 10-17
--"The Wife of His Youth": [3] 52-53; [34] 461-473

Chicago Defender: [12] 92-99

Child, Lydia Maria: [27] 644; [32] 167-169; [40] 617, 633
--"The Quadroons": [27] 644

Children's Art Carnival: [19] 32-33

children's etiquette books: [40] 795-808

Childress, Alice: [10] 94-95; [14] 24-30; [28] 210-211, 217-218
--Florence: [28] 210-211, 217-218
--"The Health Card": [14] 27-28
--Like One of the Family: [14] 24-30
--"The Pocketbook Game": [14] 28-29
--Wine in the Wilderness: [10] 94-95

Chin, Frank: [12] 16

Choy, Christine: [25] 409-416
--Mississippi Triangle (film): [25] 409-416

Chrisman, Robert: [30] 142-143
--Minor Casualties: [30] 142-143

The Christian Recorder: [36] 417-428; [38] 571; [40] 618-619, 623-628, 649-658, 662-664, 674, 679-680, 687, 687-701, 705-714, 717-728, 731-740, 743, 755-765, 770, 813-830

Christian, Barbara: [24] 85-86, 95-96

Christian, Charlie: [25] 640

Christian, Marcus B.: [18] 22-26
--Negro Ironworkers of Louisiana, 1718-1900: [18] 23, 25-26

Christie, Agatha: [38] 493
--The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: [38] 493

Civil Rights Movement: [36] 581-595

Civil War: [39] 39-43, 46-50

Clark, J. P.: [38] 660
--"Abiku": [38] 660

Clarke, Brenda, and Glenda Dickerson: [31] 672-673
--Re/membering Aunt Jemima: [31] 672-673

Clarke, Cheryl: [17] 177-179
--Narratives: Poems in the Tradition of Black Women: [17] 177-179

Clarke, George Elliot: [35] 497
--Gold Indigoes: [35] 497

Cleage, Pearl: [31] 709-712, 725-726
--Bourbon at the Border: [31] 725-726

Cleaver, Eldridge: [4] 12-17, 20-21; [8] 235; [11] 25-28, 30; [16] 5; [24] 397-398; [38] 633-634; [39] 234-235
--Soul on Ice: [4] 12-17, 20-21; [8] 235; [11] 25-28, 30; [16] 5; [24] 397-398; [38] 633; [39] 234-235

Clemens, Samuel L.: [3] 57-58, 66; [4] 45-50; [10] 134; [26] 568-569; [29] 129-131; [34] 165-167; [35] 153-154
--The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: [3] 57, 66; [4] 45-50; [10] 134; [26] 568-569; [34] 165-167; [35] 153-154
--Pudd'nhead Wilson: [3] 57-58; [10] 134

Cliff, Michelle: [28] 273-281; [32] 673-689; [40] 93-108, 113
--Abeng: [32] 681-684; [40] 93-108, 113
--Claiming an Identity: [28] 275-276
--Free Enterprise: [28] 279-280
--The Land of Look Behind: [32] 680-681
--No Telephone to Heaven: [28] 276-277

Cobb, Ned, and Theodore Rosengarten: [15] 26-27; [24] 387
--All God's Dangers: [15] 26-27; [24] 387

Coe, Charles: [34] 733-736
--Picnic On The Moon: [34] 733-736

Cole, Bob: [29] 318-320
--"No Coons Allowed!": [29] 318-320

Cole, Nat "King": [20] 168

Coleman, Horace: [12] 157

Coleman, Wanda: [23] 539-554; [24] 491-507; [26] 355-357; [33] 371-372; [34] 554-555; [36] 695-696
--African Sleeping Sickness: [26] 355-357
--"Doing Battle with the Wolf": [23] 549-551; [24] 497-498
--"Drone": [23] 543-544
--Imagoes: [24] 500
--"Luz": [23] 548-549
--Mad Dog, Black Lady: [24] 500
--Mercurochrome: [36] 695-696
--Native in a Strange Land: [33] 371-372
--"Rape": [23] 546
--"Sweet Mama Wanda Tells Fortunes for a Price": [23] 544-545
--"Television Story": [23] 545-546
--"Women of My Color": [23] 546-548
--Bathwater Wine: [34] 554-555

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: [8] 254-256
--"Kubla Khan": [8] 254-256

Collier, James Lincoln: [25] 467-468, 496-502
--The Reception of Jazz in America: [25] 496-502

Collins, Julia C.: [40] 619-621, 623-628, 633, 649-658, 661-681, 687-701, 705-714, 717-728, 731-740, 743-752, 755-765, 769-777, 815
--“A Letter from Oswego: Originality of Ideas”: [40] 627, 655, 709, 723-724
--The Curse of Caste: [40] 617-620, 623-628, 633, 649-658, 661-681, 687-701, 705-714, 717-728, 731-740, 743-752, 755-765, 769-777, 815
--“Intelligent Women”: [40] 626-627, 655, 714, 726-727, 752
--“Life is Earnest”: [40] 655, 732-733
--“Memory and Imagination”: [40] 629, 654, 656, 696, 700, 718-720
--“Mental Improvement”: [40] 625, 627, 713, 721-722, 724, 727
--“School Teaching”: [40] 624, 655, 713, 724-725

Collins, Kathleen: [25] 386; [28] 318
--Losing Ground (film): [25] 386

Collins, Lee: [20] 168

Collins, Wilkie: [40] 440, 455
--The Moonstone: [40] 440-441

Colman, Hila: [8] 184-189
--Classmates by Request: [8] 184-189

The Colored American Magazine: [38] 181-196, 571; [40] 759

Colter, Cyrus: [16] 46-47
--The Hippodrome: [16] 47
--The Rivers of Eros: [16] 46-47

Coltrane, John: [20] 168, 183, 196; [25] 640-641; [29] 275-282; [38] 295-301; [40] 272, 276-280
--A Love Supreme: [29] 277-280; [40] 272, 276-280
--Ascension: [38] 296-301
--Black Pearls: [38] 295-296, 298-301

Communist Party: [39] 355-371

Condé, Maryse: [23] 183-185; [31] 175-176; [34] 548-559
--Crossing the Mangrove: [31] 175-176
--Segu: [23] 183-185

Condon, Eddie: [20] 168

Connelly, Marc: [11] 109; [16] 142, 144-146
--The Green Pastures: [11] 109; [16] 142, 144-146

Conroy, Jack: [10] 53-57; [38] 433-434
--The Disinherited: [38] 433-434

Cooper, Anna Julia: [26] 517-518; [38] 190-191, 215-217; [40] 439, 444, 714
--A Voice from the South: [38] 190-191, 215-216

Cooper, Peggy: [17] 23-24

Corea, Chick: [25] 641

Corrothers, James: [26] 665-673
--The Black Cat Club: [26] 665-673

Cortez, Jayne: [35] 61-71

Council on Interracial Books for Children: [32] 17-22

Count, Will: [35] 323-324
--A Life Is More Than A Moment: [35] 323-324

Courtney, Ward: [29] 616-618
--Stars and Bars: [29] 616-618

Coustaut, Carmen: [27] 433-442
--Extra Change (film): [27] 440-442
--Harmonica Man (film): [27] 439
--Justifiable Homicide (film): [27] 434-436

Craft, Ellen: [28] 509-529

Craft, William: [6] 49, 74-76; [28] 509-529
--Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: [6] 49, 74-76; [28] 509-529

Crafts, Hannah: [40] 401-402, 620, 649
--The Bondwoman's Narrative: [40] 401-402, 620-621, 649

Crews, Donald: [32] 107-117

The Crisis: [38] 182-186; [39] 55

Crouch, Stanley: [25] 506-508; [36] 171-175
--Don't the Moon Look Lonesome: [36] 171-175

Crummell, Alexander: [21] 69-70; [23] 169-173

Cruse, Harold: [5] 8-9; [26] 533-534, 540
--"An Afro-American's Cultural Views": [26] 533-534, 540
--The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: [5] 8-9

Cruz, Victor: [12] 7