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Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston

January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960

Notasulga, Alabama, USA

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.

Poster for Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 (excerpt)

Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 (excerpt)

1940 • United States

Poster for Zora Neale Hurston Fieldwork Footage (excerpt)

Zora Neale Hurston Fieldwork Footage (excerpt)

1928 • United States

Poster for Fieldwork Footage

Fieldwork Footage

1928

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