Inhalt
- PART I: Louisiana Roots
- 1 Mahalia Jackson and Evan McLeod Wylie: Gumstump (1966)
- 2 Mahala Jackson's Birth Certificate (1911)
- 3 Laurraine Goreau: Mahalia Jackson in New Orleans (1975)
- 4 Mahalia Jackson: Childhood Memories (1952)
- 5 Octavia Randolph: For the Record (1955)
- 6 US Census: Mahaly Jackson at Aunt Duke's (1930)
- PART II: Commentary, Conversation, and Critical Appraisal
- 7 Bucklin Moon: A Great Gospel Singer (1949)
- 8 Bernice Bass: Louisiana Cinderella (1951)
- 9 Evelyn Cunningham: Mahalia the Mystery (1954)
- 10 Marshall Stearns: Jazz, Metronome Sense, and Blue Tonality (1956)
- 11 Mason Sargent: Meet Mahalia Jackson (1954)
- 12 George T Simon: A Veteran Gospel Singer Thinks Jazz Should Have a Soul but "Gospel Penetrates Deeper" (1954)
- 13 Nat Hentoff: You Can Still Hear Her Voice When the Music Has Stopped (1957)
- 14 Raymond Horricks: Mahalia's Emotional Performance at Newport Festival (1958)
- 15 Langston Hughes: Singer of Gospel Songs (1955)
- 16 Ralph Ellison: As the Spirit Moves Mahalia (1958)
- 17 Alex Haley: She Makes a Joyful Music (1961)
- 18 Malcolm X: "Fishing" and Filling Up at the Storefronts (1964)
- 19 Duke Ellington: Come Sunday (1973)
- 20 Studs Terkel: Thomas A Dorsey and Mahalia Jackson (1973/2005)
- 21 Hans Rookmaaker: Visiting Mahalia Jackson (1962)
- 22 Hettie Jones: Mahalia Jackson (1974)
- 23 Whitney Balliett: Halie (1972 and 1975)
- 24 Leonard Feather: Mahalia and Her Principles (1962)
- 25 Leonard Feather: A Talk with Mahalia Jackson (1964)
- 26 Leonard Feather: Mahalia Keeps the Faith in Turbulent Times (1969)
- 27 Leonard Feather: Mahalia's Gospel Truth in Asia (1971)
- 28 Anthony Heilbut: Mahalia the Queen (1971)
- PART III: Press Coverage
- 29 Evangelist in Recital at Cleveland (1938)
- 30 Honored by Dayton Gospel Fans (1952)
- 31 Rob Roy: Boy, the Ear Muffs, Those "Gospel" Discs are Here (1953)
- 32 George F Brown: It's the Gospel Truth (1953)
- 33 Jack Saunders: Mahalia Jackson Raps "Glamour" Gospel Singing (1954)
- 34 Dawn Francis: Mahalia and Clara in Hot Contest of Gospel Singers (1955)
- 35 Langston Hughes: Gospel Singers and Gospel Swingers are Gone (1953)
- 36 Spiritual Artists Survive Great Slump-Others feel "Pinch" (1954)
- 37 Gospel Singing!It's Big Business! (1955)
- 38 Bishop William Jacob Walls: Swinging Spirituals? (1960)
- 39 Review of "Since the Fire Started Burning in My Soul" b/w "In My Home Over There" (1951)
- 40 Mahalia Jackson and Sarah Vaughan (1951)
- 41 Mahalia Jackson Given Top French Music Award (1951)
- 42 Ollie Stewart: Report from Europe (1952)
- 43 Songs in Bethlehem (1952)
- 44 Letter to Izzy Rowe from Israel (1953)
- 45 Jean-Robert Masson: The Place of Mahalia Jackson (1961/1972)
- 46 Manfred Sack: The Voice of the Other America (1981)
- PART IV: Mahalia Jackson and Her Circle in Their Own Words
- 47 Mahalia Jackson: Gospel Singing (1951)
- 48 Mahalia Jackson: 1950 Carnegie Hall Debut (1967)
- 49 Mahalia Jackson: A Made-up Mind (1963)
- 50 Sallie Martin: Mentoring Mahalia Jackson (1972)
- 51 Brother John Sellers: Rooting for Mahalia Jackson (1972)
- 52 Alice McClarity: Being Mentored by Mahalia Jackson (2011)
- 53 Alfred Duckett: Celebrating Mahalia Jackson (1955)
- 54 Mildred Falls: Playing for Mahalia Jackson (1972)
- 55 Louise Overall Weaver: On the Road with Mahalia Jackson (1982)
- PART V: Scholarly Literature
- 56 Willie Jennings: The Black Sacred Singer of Sacred Song as an Icon (1989)
- 57 Horace Clarence Boyer: The Vocal Style of Mahalia Jackson, Gospel Singer (1990)
- 58 Michael Harris: Thomas A Dorsey's Training of Mahalia Jackson (1992)
- 59 Robert Marovich: "She's the Empress! The Empress!" (2015)
- 60 Adam Green: Making the Music (2007)
- 61 Johari Jabir: On Conjuring Mahalia (2009)
- 62 Emily Lordi: Ralph Ellison's Mahalia Jackson (2013)
- 63 Mark Burford: The Modern Gospel Singer (2014)
- 64 Barry Long: Mahalia Jackson, Jazz, and Signifying Spirituality (2014)
- PART VI: Live Performance
- 65 Gospel Song Diva: Carnegie Hall, October 1, 1950
- 66 Peter Feldman: At the Brooklyn Academy, April 3, 1959
- 67 Dick Flohil: A Salute to Mahalia Jackson, Madison Square Garden, May 24, 1959
- 68 Hugues Panassié: Mahalia Jackson's Triumph: L'Olympia, Paris, April 25, 1961
- 69 Valerie Wilmer: Royal Albert Hall, London, May 18, 1969
- 70 D A Rodrigues: Concert Tour to India, April 29-May 8, 1971
- PART VII: The Record Business
- 71 Mahalia Jackson and S I Hayakawa: Decca and Apollo (1954)
- 72 Mahalia Jackson: "Move on Up A Little Higher" (1951)
- 73 Richard Kleiner: Mahalia Jackson Sings for Glory of the Lord (1954)
- 74 Alfred Lorber: Columbia Records Signs Mahalia Jackson (1954)
- 75 George Avakian and Bill Russell: First Columbia Albums (1954-1955)
- 76 Mahalia Jackson: Sweetened-Water Songs (1967)
- 77 John A Campbell: Letter to John McClure (1973)
- 78 Irving Townsend: Mahalia Jackson the Album Artist (1972)
- PART VIII: Radio, Television, and Film
- 79 S R Garlington: Toast of the Town (1952)
- 80 3,000 Hear Mahalia Jackson (1954)
- 81 Charles Wolfe: Mahalia on the Air, 1954 (1990)
- 82 Edward "Sonny" Murrain: Appraising The Mahalia Jackson Show (1954-55)
- 83 Willa Saunders Jones: Queen Mahalia at Greater Salem Baptist Church (1955)
- 84 Jules Schwerin: Imitation of Life (1992)
- 85 Mahalia Jackson: Letter to George Avakian about Jazz on a Summer's Day (1960)
- PART IX: Bill Russell's Mahalia Jackson Journal
- 86 Bill Russell: Mahalia Jackson Journal, 1954-1955
- PART X: Politics, Activism, and Entrepreneurship
- 87 Conrad Clark: Gospel Queen Threatens to Sue Leftists (1952)
- 88 Rev James L Lofton: Letter to John Foster Dulles (1955)
- 89 Mahalia Rocks Walking Folks (1956)
- 90 Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom (1957)
- 91 Mahalia Plans Huge Rights Benefit (1963)
- 92 Mahalia Jackson: To All Freedom Fighters (1963)
- 93 Salute to Southern Freedom (1963)
- 94 Lerone Bennett Jr: The March (1963)
- 95 Craig Werner: Mahalia and the Movement (1998)
- 96 Drew Hansen: Speech and Song (2005)
- 97 Martin Luther King Jr: Letter to Mahalia Jackson (c 1964)
- 98 Mahalia Jackson and Granville White: There Hasn't Been a Man Like That Since Jesus (1968)
- 99 Mahalia's House of Flowers
- 100 Mahalia Jackson: The Mahalia Jackson Foundation (1967)
- 101 Mahalia Jackson to Salute Black Women (1969)
- 102 Mahalia Jackson: Self-Help (1971)
- 103 Black Management (1969)
- 104 John T Edge: Mahalia Jackson's Chicken System (2017)
- 105 Alice Randall: Glori-fried and Glori-fied (2015)
- 106 Mahalia Jackson Cooks Soul (1970)
- 107 Toni Tipton-Martin: Southern Cooking (2015)
- PART XI: Poetry
- 108 Ted Joans: Mahalia Jackson (1968)
- 109 James A Emanuel: Mahalia Jackson (1999)
- 110 Jacques Réda: Assumption of Mahalia Jackson (1980)
- 111 Michael S Harper: mahalia: MAHALIA (1975)
- 112 Audre Lorde: The Day They Eulogized Mahalia (1973)
- 113 Quandra Prettyman: When Mahalia Sings (nd)
- 114 Ollie Griddine: Poem (c 1960s)