On refusing to be humbled by second place in a contest you did not design: a tradition by now / Alice Walker -- Zora Neale Hurston: a woman half in shadow / Mary Helen Washington -- Autobiography, Folklore and Reportage -- from Dust Tracks on a Road -- from Mules and Men -- from Tell my Horse -- 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 -- 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 -- Looking for Zora / Alice Walker.