You don't know us Negroes: and other essays

Part 1: On the Folk. Bits of Our Harlem ; High John de Conquer ; The Last Slave Ship ; Characteristics of Negro Expression ; Conversions and Visions ; Shouting ; Spirituals and Neo-Spirituals ; Ritualistic Expression from the Lips of the Communicants of the Seventh Day Church of God --

Part 2: On Art and Such. You don't Know Us Negroes ; Fannie Hurst ; Art and Such ; Stories of Conflict ; The Chick with One Hen ; Jazz Regarded as Social Achievement ; Review of Voodoo in New Orleans by Robert Tallant ; What White Publishers Won't Print --

Part 3: On Race and Gender. The Hue and Cry About Howard University ; The Emperor Effaces Himself ; The Ten Commandments of Charm ; Noses ; How It Feels to Be Colored Me ; Race Cannot Become Great Until It Recognizes Its Talent ; Now Take Noses ; Lawrence of the River ; My Most Humiliating Jim Crow Experience ; The Lost Keys of Glory ; The South Was Had ; Take for Instance Spessard Holland --

Part 4: On Politics. The "Pet Negro" System ; Negroes Without Self-Pity ; The Rise of the Begging Joints ; Crazy for This Democracy ; I Saw Negro Votes Peddled ; Mourner's Bench ; A Negro Voter Sizes Up Taft ; Court Order Can't Make Races Mix ; Which Way the NAACP? --

Part 5: On the Trial of Ruby McCollum. Zora's Revealing Story of Ruby's 1st Day in Court! ; Victim of Fate! ; Ruby Sane! ; Ruby McCollum Fights for Life ; Bare Plot Against Ruby ; Trial Highlights ; Justice and Fair Play Aim of Judge Adams as Ruby Goes on Trial ; McCollum-Adams Trial Highlights ; Ruby Bares Her Love Life ; Ruby's Story : Doctor's Threats, Tussle over Gun Led to Slaying! ; Ruby's Troubles Mount : Named in $100,000 Lawsuit! ; The Life Story of Mrs. Ruby J. McCollum! ; My Impressions of the Trial --

Chronological List of Essays.