Non-Fiction

Articles

• "The Hue and Cry About Howard University" (1925)
• "The Ten Commandments of Charm" (1925)
• "On Noses" (1925)
• "The Eatonville Anthology" (1926)
• "Communication" (1927)
• "How It Feels to be Colored Me" (1928)
• From Negro: An Anthology. Ed. Nancy Cunard (1934)
• • "Characteristics of Negro Expression"
  • "Conversions and Visions"
  • "Shouting"
  • "The Sermon"
  • "Mother Catharine"
  • "Uncle Monday"
  • "Spirituals and Neo–Spirituals"
• "Fanny Hurst by Her Ex–Amanuensis" (1937)
• "The 'Pet Negro' System" (1943)
• "High John de Conquer" (1943)
• "Negroes Without Self Pity" (1943)
• "My Most Humiliating Jim Crow Experience" (1944)
• "The Rise of the Begging Joints" (1945)
• "Crazy for This Democracy" (1945)
• "Negroes" (1946)
• "The Negro in the United States" (1947)
• "What White Publishers Won't Publish" (1950)
• "Court Order Can't Make Races Mix"
• "The Trial of Ruby McCollum" (1956)

Autobiography

• Dust Tracks on a Road (1942)

Journalism

• "Race Cannot Be Great Until It Recognizes Its Talent" (1934)
• "Lawrence of the River" (1942)
• "The Last Slave Ship" (1944)
• "The Conscience of the Court" (1950)
• "I Saw Negro Votes Peddled" (1951)
• "Why the Negro Won't Buy Communism" (1951)
• "A Negro Voter Sizes Up Taft" (1951)
• From the Ruby McCollum trial:
  • "Zora's Revealing Story of Ruby's First Day in Court" (1952)
  • "Victim of Fate" (1952)
  • "Ruby Sane" (1952)
  • "Ruby McCollum Fights for Life" (1952)
  • "Bare Plot Against Ruby" (1952)
  • "Trial Highlights" (1952)
  • "McCollum–Adams Trial Highlights" (1952)
  • "Ruby Bares Her Love" (1953)
  • "Doctor's Threats, Tussle over Gun Led to Slaying" (1953)
  • "Ruby's Troubles Mount
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  • "The Life Story of Mrs. Ruby J. McCollum" (1953)
• "The Juvenile Delinquency" (1958)
• "The Tripson Story" (1959)
• "The Farm Laborer at Home (1959)
• "Hoodoo and Black Magic (1959)

Reviews

• "Full of Mud, Sweat and Blood" (1935). Review of God Shakes Creation by David Cohn.
• "Star–Wrassling Sons–of–the–Universe" (1937). Review of The Hurricane'sa Children by Carl Cramer.
• "Rural Schools for Negroes" (1938). Review of The Jeanes Teacher in the United States by Lance G. E. Jones.
• "Stories of Conflict" (1938). Review of Uncle Tom's Children by Richard Wright.
• "Bible, Played by Ear in Africa" (1946). Review of How God Fix Jonah by Lorenz Graham.
• "Jazz Regarded as Social Achievement" (1946). Review of Shining Trumpets by Rudi Blesh.
• "Thirty Days Among Maroons" (1947). Review of Journey to Accompong, by Katharine Dunham.
• "The Transplanted Negro" (1947). Review of Trinidad Village by Melville Herskovits and Frances Herskovits.
• Review of Voodoo in New Orleans by Robert Tallant.
• "At the Sound of the Conch Shell" (1949). Review of New Day by Victor Stafford Reid.
• "Some Fabulous Caribbean Riches Revealed" (1951). Review of The Pencil of God by Pierre Marcelin and Philippe Thoby Marcelin.

Musical Compositions

• Cold Rainy Day (1939)
• John Henry (1939)
• Caribbean Melodies for Chorus of Mixed Voices and Soloists (1947)

Folk Tales/Anthropology

• "Possum or Pig" (1926)
• "Cudjoe's Own Story of the African Slaver" (1927)
• "Dance Songs and Tales from the Bahamas" (1930)
• "Hoodoo in America" (1931)
• Mules and Men (1935)
• Tell My Horse (1938)
• Go Gator and Muddy the Water: Writings by Zora Neale Hurston from the Federal Writers’ Project (1999)
• Every Tongue Got to Confess: Folk-Tales from the Gulf States (2001)