Zora Neale Hurston
Born: 1891-01-07
Zora Neale Hurston was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on hoodoo. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937.
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as uncreditedReleased: 1928-01-08
Under the tutelage of anthropologist Franz Boas (her former Columbia professor) and Harlem...
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Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
as Self (archive footage)Released: 2023-01-17
Raised in the small all-Black Florida town of Eatonville, Zora Neale Hurston studied at Howard...
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Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940
as HerselfReleased: 1940-03-24
Field recordings of religious services in a South Carolina Gullah community. Commandment Keeper...
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Zora Neale Hurston: A Heart with Room for Every Joy
as Self (archival)Released: 2005-01-01
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Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
as Self (archive footage)Released: 2008-08-16
Zora Neale Hurston, path-breaking novelist, pioneering anthropologist and one of the first black...
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