Maya Angelou -- Toni Cade Bambara -- Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) -- Ed Bullins -- Ben Caldwell -- Alice Childress -- Ossie Davis -- Tom Dent -- Alexis Deveaux -- Lonne Elder III -- Charles H. Fuller, Jr. -- Bill Gunn -- Alex Haley -- Lorraine Hansberry -- Paul Charter Harrison -- Calvin C. Hernton -- June Jordan -- Adrienne Kennedy -- Woodie King, Jr. -- William Wellington Mackey -- Marvin X (Marvin E. Jackmon, Nazzam Al Fitnah Muhajir, El Muhajir) -- James Alan McPherson -- Arthenia J. Bates Millican -- Ron Milner -- Loften Mitchell -- Albert L. Murray -- Larry Neal -- Kalamu ya Salaam (Vallery Ferdinand III) -- Ntozake Shange -- Ted Shine -- Joseph A. Walker -- Douglas Turner Ward -- Richard Wesley -- Edgar B. White -- Samm-Art Williams.
Appendix. The Black arts movement -- Community and commentators : Black theatre and its critics -- A look at the contemporary Black theatre movement -- A slender thread of hope : the Kennedy Center Black Theatre Project -- Black theaters and theater organizations in America, 1961-1982 : a research list.