Zora Neale Hurston
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Zora Neale Hurston was an American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on Hood
Hurston sometime between 1935 and 1943
Hurston playing a hountar, or mama drum, 1937
Neale Hurston in 1938, photographed by Carl Van Vechten
Hurston in Florida on an anthropological research trip, 1935
Eatonville, Florida
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Eatonville is a town in Orange County, Florida, United States, six miles north of Orlando. It is part of Greater Orlando. Incorporated on August 15, 1887, it was one of the first freedmen's towns, whi
Zora Neale Hurston
…key foundations for the growth of ethnography, literature, and Africana Studies. Hurston was born in Notasulga, Alabama, and moved with her family to Eatonville, Florida, in 1894. She later used Eatonville as the setting for many of her stories. In her early career, Hurston conducted anthropological and ethnographic…
Eatonville Town Hall
Zora Neale Hurston Commemorative Walkway