Selections in prose and verse by the following: Thomas Jefferson, Henry Timrod, Sidney Lanier, Booker T. Washington, John Crowe Ransom, Thomas Wolfe, Margaret Mitchell, William Faulkner, Carson McCullers, James Still, Eudora Welty, Margaret Walker, Jesse Stuart, Flannery O'Connor, James Dickey, Wendell Berry, Martin Luther King, Jr., Alice Walker and John Holman.
