Zora Neale Hurston Research Paper Zora Hurston was a bright, young woman with great talent for writing books with a goal to portray and capture the everyday life of African Americans in the hardships during the 1930's through the 1950's. In "Standards Focus: Author Biography--Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)," an informative article by John Doe, Hurston is described as a large figure to the African-American culture in the United States during this hard racial time period. Zora Hurst attended two academic schools after she left high school. She attended "college preparatory courses at Morgan Academy (Now Morgan State University) in Baltimore, Maryland, and in the fall of 1918 entered Howard University," (Doe 1). It is obvious that Hurston wanted a good education from the beginning, to start off in the already rough everyday life of the racial period for African Americans.
Alice Maldenior Walker, a female American Author, poet, and activist who was born in February 9, 1944 in a small city in Georgia. She lost sight of one eye at the age of eight years because of an accidental act of her brother playing with a BB gun. In her early high school days, she was a valedictorian which made her to win a “rehabilitation scholarship” made her to go to a college for black women called Spellman in Atlanta, Georgia. She spent two years at Spellman and was transferred to Sarah Lawrence College in New York. She then travelled to Africa as an exchange student in her junior year.
(Ewell) Kate experienced much loss at a young age, three of her family members died by the time she was thirteen. The first death was of her father on November 1st, 1855 from a train accident leaving her mother to raise the children with the help of Kate’s grandmother and great grandmother. When she was thirteen, her great grandmother and half brother passed away a month apart. Her great grandmother was rumored to be a great influence on her from her story telling and encouragement. (Ewell) During her school years Chopin attended St. Louis Academy of the Sacred Heart, there she was encouraged to write and express herself.
During this part of her work, Zora is showing her childhood view that whites and blacks are no different from one another. This view changes as a result of her being sent to a school in Jacksonville. Now being outside her town of Eatonville, she began to experience what it was like to be colored. Zora says that she remembers the day she bacame
Rosa was born on February 4th, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her father, James McCauley was a carpenter and her mother, Leona Edwards, was a teacher. Growing up she was sick most of the time and was a small child. Eventually her mother and father separated. Her mother took her and her brother to live in Pine Level, a town near Montgomery.
Born on April 4th, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Angelou was raised in St. Louis and Stamps, Arkansas. In Stamps, Dr. Angelou experienced the brutality of racial discrimination, but she also had an unshakable faith and values of traditional African-American family, community, and culture (Biography.com). The loss of her Close friend Martin Luther King Jr. on her 40 th. Birthday was devastating, and life changing and it affected the way she wrote which is reflected in the poem “Phenomenal Woman” is an inspirational piece of poetry that provides her readers the ability to sense her self-confidence and self -awareness. Angelou's poems celebrate black people, men and women; at the same time, they bear witness to the trials of black people in this country.
She is the daughter of Bailey Johnson and Vivian Baxter. Angelou was raised in Stamps, Arkansas by her paternal grandmother Annie Henderson, along with her brother Bailey. Annie Henderson, whom Angelou called “Momma”, was her only stability after her parents divorced. Her brother Bailey would later give her the name Maya. At an early age Angelou was raped by a friend of her mother’s while visiting her mother in St. Louis.
Early Life Oprah Gail Winfrey was born on January 29, 1954 to a teenage mom Vernita Lee, and father Vernon Winfrey in Kosciusko, Mississippi. After her birth, Oprah’s mother was unable to fully take care of her and moved to Milwaukee to find work, and planned on later moving her daughter in with her. In her mother’s absence Oprah was left in the care of her grandmother, Hattie Mae Lee, who taught her how to read and had young Oprah participating in various church activities. As said, Oprah was moved to the city with her mother at the age of 6, but this move brought troubles to Oprah’s life as she was constantly raped between the ages of nine and 13 by male family members and a family friend. A little while later in her teenage years, Oprah’s promiscuity caused her to become pregnant, but didn’t end well as the child died as an infant.
Kimberly Lucas Ms. Moon Honors English IV 15 April 2011 International Adoption: Who will save a life? Pearl is an orphan from Ethiopia. She has no home and is all alone. Her family abandoned her three years ago.
Alice Walker, best known perhaps as the author of The Color Purple, was the eighth child of Georgia sharecroppers. After a childhood accident blinded her in one eye, she went on to become valedictorian of her local school, and attend Spelman College and Sarah Lawrence College on scholarships, graduating in 1965. Alice Walker volunteered in the voter registration drives of the 1960s in Georgia, and went to work after college in the Welfare Department in New York City. Alice Walker married in 1967 (and divorced in 1976). Her first book of poems came out in 1968 and her first novel just after her daughter's birth in 1970.