Introduction: Black Citizen-Soldiers, 1865-1919 by Bruce A. Glasrud
I. Black Participation in the Militia
The African American Militia during Radical Reconstruction by Otis A. Singletary
'They Are as Proud of Their Uniform as Any Who Serve Virginia': African American Participation in the Virginia Volunteers, 1872-1899 by Roger D. Cunningham
The Black Militia of the New South: Texas as a Case Study by Alwyn Barr
A Place in the Parade: Citizenship, Manhood and African American Men in the Illinois National Guard, 1870-1916 by Eleanor L. Hannah
The Last March: The Demise of the Black Militia in Alabama by Beth Taylor Muskat
II. Black Volunteer Units in the War with Spain
The Black Volunteers in the Spanish-American War by Marvin E. Fletcher
North Carolina's African American Regiment and the Spanish-American War by Willard B. Gatewood, Jr.
"No Officers, No Fight!' The Sixth Virginia Volunteers in the Spanish-American War by Ann Field Alexander
Black Kansans and the Spanish-American War by Willard B. Gatewood, Jr.
'A Lot of Fine, Sturdy Black Warriors': Texas's African American 'Immunes' in the Spanish-American War by Roger D. Cunningham