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Raised in the small all-Black Florida town of Eatonville, Zora Neale Hurston studied at Howard University before arriving in New York in 1925. She would soon become a key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, best remembered
Zora Neale Hurston, path-breaking novelist, pioneering anthropologist and one of the first black women to enter the American literary canon (Their Eyes Were Watching God), established the African American vernacular as o
"The Films of Zora Neale Hurston" welcomes Library of Congress employee Mike Mashon, who discusses the discovery of a forgotten filmmaker's work.
he uplifting story of the African American author of "Their Eyes were Watching God" and a remarkable woman that never let society hold her back. Her mama's voice "Jump at de sun Zora, you may not get there, but you sure
Under the tutelage of anthropologist Franz Boas (her former Columbia professor) and Harlem Renaissance arts patron Charlotte Osgood Mason, Zora Neale Hurston spent nearly two years, from 1927 to 1929, studying the folklo