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
Niggerati
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Niggerati was the name used, with deliberate irony, by Wallace Thurman for the group of young African-American artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance. "Niggerati" is a portmanteau of "nig
First and only issue of the 1926 literary magazine "Fire!!"
Cover image of first issue of the 1928 Negro literary journal "Harlem: A forum of Negro life"