On the title page and its verso, she writes concerning the Constitution and slavery.

In the main part of the diary, section for January, Anne Spencer writes about the Prodigal Son (January 1); the Byrds, Georgia's U.S. Senator [Richard B.] Russell, Jr., difficulty of African-Americans in dealing with "our appearance on this continent factually" (January 2); "Virginia as Narcissus" (January 3); a list of people and concepts placed in a credit column or a debit column (January 4); Notes for "Virginia as Narcissus" discussing racism and including a quote about her preference in epithets, "I choose Nigger to dear darky. Nigger given a 25 % to 50 % chance can defend me and himself but a darky is a moral queer " (January 5-11, and possibly more); the NAACP and her monetary involvement (January 11-12); mentions Roland Hayes (1887-1977) and the famous incident in the Georgia shoe store (January 13); Governor James Lindsay Almond's election, the Acts of Assembly for 1852-1854, "to read it makes one hope as in primate evolution that we have ascended from the apes," and the caste system in India compared with America (January 14-15); integration (January 16); Lindsay Almond's speech, the Byrd machine (January 18); takes issue with the statement of a Southern religionist Governor [Richard B. Russell, Jr.] teaching a "businessman's Bible class" on the radio, "only the Anglo-Saxon has exercised the art of gardening!" (January 19-21); the vanity of the state of Virginia and the editorial critical of local [Lynchburg?] Negro leadership (January 22); hatred spread world-wide through the threat of annihilation (January 23); mentions Friend to Friend: A Candid Exchange between Pearl S. Buck and Carlos P. Romulo (1958) (January 24); Narcissus (January 25); "Virginia as Narcissus or the Southern Mind" (January 26-28); Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, passed 1853-1854 (January 29-30); the fascist campaign against the Jews and the idea of monotheism and quote from her poem "White Things" "and fling in the face of God with all your might Man-maker, make white" (January 31-February 1)

Entries by Anne Spencer under the February section include: a story from Thinking Black by Dan Crawford and examples of ways "the Southern mind has shown its determination to reconcrete slavedom polices" through Plessy v Ferguson and Jim Crowism (February 1); quotes from Raymond Moley about empathy and praises Franklin Roosevelt (February 2); discusses public schools, epithets, Sequoia, and John Trumball, tutor at Yale (February 3); warns that history must be read with caution, mentioning Palgrave, William Byrd, and John Smith, until you get to Ellen Glasgow, "her fiction is the very essence of these new world folk in their dominating situation" and James Branch Cabell (February 4); Spencer asks the question, since public schools are equal, why not mix the white children into the equalized colored schools? (February 5); quotes from her poem "White Things" (February 6); discusses Faulkner in Japan and his comments about Japan, loyalty, the truth, and integration (February 7-9); U.S. Senator Jacob Javits on integration (February 9); Alexander Pushkin and Russian literature (February 10-13); credits the African slaves and indentured debtors and criminals with producing the American nation (February 11); mention of Anselm and Arthur Koestler (February 12); describes Hodding Carter with a good face and open countenance and comments about the South filling "the cities of our land with the ghettoes and explosions of the Harlem Projects" … with no mixed jobs or places without a sign "white ladies colored women" (February 15-16); the campaign of the governor in 1959 with his vicious comments about African-Americans (February 16-17); the divisions of white society and a few lines of poetry:

Delicate distant shepherdess

And hours that run

Held by clouds

From the blazing sun (February 18);

Comments about Oliver Cromwell, Macaulay, Milton, and Harry Byrd (February 19-20); Mississippi Senator J.C. Stinnett, Robert Owen, integration conflict (February 21); Wendell Wilkie and Adlai Stevenson (February 25); hypocrisy of the South, "The South's anxious, eager even, willingness to give away an [intangible] Jesus in a far-flung all inclusive way but to keep for themselves His sheep on a thousand hills, the loaves and fishes, the hire without the work, the good part, supper in the upper room" (February 28).

Entries by Anne Spencer under the March section include: some material for the John Brown poem (March 1); a draft of her poem "Any Wife to Any Husband A Derived Poem" written on August 1972 (March 2); more material for her John Brown poem (March 4, 6, 7); paean to Abraham Lincoln (March 8-9); material for "Le Roi Meets Lincoln" or "When Abraham Lincoln Met Leroy Jones" (March 9-11); begins a manuscript piece with "There is nothing more boring than too much connubial bliss" (March 11-12). The rest of March has ink entries from the unknown original owner of the diary, but no Anne Spencer.

Entries by Anne Spencer under the April section include: states "the wild men; the red men, the black men were the foundation of their own calamity and of the white supremacy" in the New World (April 14); education (April 16); David Lee, H.L. Mencken, and public schools (April 17); Chaucer, Lowell Thomas, "yellow peril" (April 19); and "An Informal Talk to Myself on Virginia as Narcissus," part of it with the date June 1959 (April 20-21, 25-28).

Entries by Anne Spencer under the May section include: "Negro Attitude Toward Each Other" and comment by Corra Harris (May 9); [Gullah?] language (May 19); material for her John Brown poem (May 21); "Appomattox was a victory for the South" (May 24); and references to Senator Jacob Javits and Clifford Dowdey, and a more in-depth discussion of an interview between James Weldon Johnson and Editor Douglas Southall Freeman when they talked about the Racial Integrity Law (May 26-28).

There were no entries by Anne Spencer in June or July.

Entries by Anne Spencer under the August section include: the missing record in the ages of mankind is that of the Negro (August 4); the sword of Jesus a weapon against cruelty (August 8); and more material for her John Brown poem (August 12-27).

Entries by Anne Spencer under the September section include: "The Ebony Laddy" (September 26-27).

There were no entries by Anne Spencer in October.

Entries by Anne Spencer under the November section include: A family story about Edward A. Spencer and his propensity for finding useful articles, articulated by his daughter, "She learned, she said her first and only precept in chemistry: 'nothing in nature is lost.' That axiom was easy, she knew where all the would- have-been-lost things got to. Pop found them in his itinerary and brought them home." (November 10-11).

Entries by Anne Spencer under the December section include: reasons why some lack possessions (December 4); more material for her John Brown poem ((December 5, 7, 9); "being somebody" (December 8); new breed of golfers, dated August 1972 (December 9); H.L. Mencken's quote about liars (December 10); integration of public schools (December 11-12); America and sexual promiscuity, dated October 15, 1970 (December 14); dreams and two greatest peoples in the world, the Englishman and the Hebrew (December 15); slavery, hatred (December 17); slave owners and the value of slaves (December 18-19); Emerson, and England's finest hour (December 20); the essence of religion (December 21); "Everything happens for the best" (December 23); [Fair Employment Practices Commission?] (December 27); America Firsters and proles (December 30); mention of Kathleen Norris (1880-1966), Charles Lindbergh, and Kelland (December 31).

Entries by Anne Spencer in the Memoranda Pages include: Civil Rights and the right to vote; hasty pudding aristocracy; and Robert E. Lee, on the inside back cover.