Background, childhood, and education in Syracuse; job discrimination; enlistment United States Army, 1912; military transports, commission, segregation within armed forces; government civil service, 1919; Harlem; Marcus Garvey; THE MESSENGER; PITTSBURGH COURIER; magazine supplement, Chicago; differences among Negro leaders; southern travels; Socialist Party activities; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; THE CRISIS; Negroes in politics; housing; interracial marriage; Liberia; consumer cooperatives; Ethiopia; American Negroes in World War II; race relations in Latin America; Negro journalism; Negroes and Jews; Negroes and Communist Party; National Negro Congress; March on Washington; impressions of Benjamin Davis, A. Philip Randolph, Chandler Owen, James W. Ivy, James Weldon Johnson, Roy Wilkins, H.L. Mencken, Walter White
African American soldiers; African American journalists; African American authors; African American newspapers; World War, 1939-1945--African Americans; African Americans--Civil rights; African Americans--Social conditions; United States Race relations; Schuyler, George S. (George Samuel), 1895-1977; Socialist Party of the United States of America; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People