Zora neale hurston biography timeline book
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Life Story: Zora Neale Hurston (–)
Portrait of Zora Neale Hurston
Carl Van Vechten, Portrait of Zora Neale Hurston, April 3, Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, Washington, D.C.
Unidentified Woman With Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston
Unidentified Woman With Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, Yale University Library, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Zora Neale Hurston
James Weldon Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, Yale University Library, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Zora Neale Hurston was born on January 7, in Eatonville, Florida. Eatonville was one of the first towns in the United States founded by Black citizens. Zora’s father was a minister who served three terms as Eatonville’s mayor. Zora attended the town’s school, where she studied the teachings of Booker T. Washington. She was greatly influenced by the philosophy that education, hard work, and per
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Zora Neale Hurston
American author, anthropologist, filmskapare (–)
Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, [1]:&#;17&#;[2]:&#;5&#; – January 28, ) was an American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the earlyth-century American South and published research on Hoodoo and Caribbean Vodou.[3] The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in She also wrote more than 50 short stories, plays, an autobiography, ethnographies, and many essays.
Hurston was born in Notasulga, Alabama, and moved with her family to Eatonville, Florida in She later used Eatonville as the setting for many of her stories. In her early career, Hurston conducted anthropological and ethnographic research as a scholar at Barnard College and Columbia University.[4] She had an interest in African-American and Caribbean folklore, and how these contributed to the community's ide
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Timeline of Zora Neale Hurston
The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
Jan 7,
Zora Neale Hurston Born
Zora Neale Hurston is born in Notasulga, Alabama. She is the fifth of eight children born to John and Lucy Potts Hurston.
Move to Eatonville
The Hurston family moves to Eatonville, an incorporated, self-governed, all-African American town north of Orlando, Florida. Incorporated in , it is the oldest such town in the United States.
Mother Dies
Hurston's mother Lucy Potts Hurston dies. Soon after, her father marries Mattie Moge, a young woman only six years older than Zora. It is said that Hurston and her new stepmother bitterly dislike each other.
Twenty-something High-Schooler
After leaving home and school and working several odd jobs to support herself, Hurston moves to Baltimore, Maryland. To qualify for a free high school education, year-old Hurston lies about her age, claiming her birth year as She maintains the falsehood until her death.
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