Nonfiction Published By Black Americans in Decade: 1940s
- Distinguished Negroes Abroad by Beatrice Jackson Fleming and Marion Jackson Pryde
- The Diplomatic Relations of the United States with Haiti, 1776-1891 By Rayford W. Logan
- What the Negro Wants by Rayford W. Logan
- The African Mandates in World Politics by Rayford W. Logan
- From Slavery to Freedom by John Hope Franklin
- The Free Negro in North Carolina, 1790–1860 by John Hope Franklin
- An Historical Outline of the Negro in Travis County by John Mason Brewer
- New Orleans Cookbook by Lena Richard
- Rebecca’s Cookbook by Rebecca West
- Bess Gant’s Cook Book: Over 600 Original Recipes by Bessie M. Gant
- The Ebony Cookbook: A Date with a Dish by Freda DeKnight
- 12 Million Black Voices by Richard Wright
- The Negro Caravan: Writings by American Negroes
- The Negro in Virginia by Ulysses Lee
- The Negro in the Americas by Charles H. Wesley
- A Brief History of 75 Years of Negro Progress by Charles H. Wesley with John C. Dancy