Dedication: On refusing to be humbled by second place in a contest you did not design : a tradition by now / Alice Walker --

Introduction: Zora Neale Hurston : a woman half in shadow / Mary Helen Washington --

1. Autobiography, folklore and reportage. from Dust Tracks on a Road ; from Mules and Men ; from Tell my Horse --

2. Essays and articles. How it feels to be colored me ; The "pet" Negro system ; My most humiliating Jim Crow experience ; Crazy for this democracy ; What white publishers won't print --

3. Fiction. The Eatonville anthology ; from Jonah's Gourd vine ; Sweat ; The gilded six-bits ; from Moses, man of the mountain ; from Their eyes were watching God --

Afterword: Looking for Zora / Alice Walker.