Pt. 1. Playin' the fool...slavery.
The passing of Grandison / Charles W. Chesnutt
Rhymes, riddles, and songs
Pt. 2. Lay my burden down...emancipation to the Roaring Twenties.
The conjurer's revenge / Charles W. Chesnutt
The fruitful sleeping of the Rev. Elisha Edwards / Paul Laurence Dunbar
Jokes, stories, songs, etc. / Bert Williams
Pt. 3. New day's a-coming...The Harlem Renaissance to the Fifties.
Jokes and routines / Butterbeans and Susie
from The Walls of Jericho / Rudolph Fisher
Why women got the advantage of men / Zora Neale Hurston
from Black no more / George Schuyler
Chitlin' Circuit routines
The conjure-man dies / Rudolph Fisher
Quips and cracks from Hollywood film clowns
Jokes and routines / Moms Mabley
Jesse B. Simple tales / Langston Hughes
Observations / Satchel Paige
Jokes and routines / Redd Foxx.
What you see is what you get...Civil rights to the millennium.
from Nigger: an autobiography / Dick Gregory
Cadillac Flambé / Ralph Ellison
from The Wig / Charles Wright
from Blind man with a pistol / Chester Himes
from Yellow back radio broke-down / Ishmael Reed
Jokes / Godfrey Cambridge
from The loves and lives of Mr. Jiveass Nigger / Cecil Brown
Jokes and routines / Flip Wilson
from South Street / David Bradley
Magid and Mudbone / Mel Watkins
The dozens-caps and snaps / Folk
Random quips from famous wits
from You so crazy / Martin Lawrence
from Oxherding tale / Charles Johnson
from Rock This! / Chris Rock.
