Zora Neale Hurston in the 1920s

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Zora Neale Hurston in The 1920s Zora Neale Hurston is considered one of the pre-eminent writers of twentieth-century African-American literature. Hurston was born on January 7, 1891. She was raised in Eatonville, Florida, which was the first incorporated all-Black town in America and became the setting for most of Hurston's fiction. Hurston is considered among the foremost writers of the Harlem Renaissance, a literary and artistic movement centered in Harlem, New York, that redefined African American expression during the 1920s and 1930s. She worked briefly as a maid, and at sixteen was hired as a wardrobe girl for a touring theatrical troupe and traveled the South for eighteen months. She attended Howard University in Washington D.C. from 1923 to 1924 and in 1925 moved to New York City. She studied anthropology at Barnard College and Columbia University with the anthropologist Franz Boas, an experience that profoundly influenced her work. After graduating in 1928, Hurston received a fellowship to do anthropological field research on African American folklore in the South. The data she collected over the next four years, would be used both in her collections of folklore and in her fictional works. In 1948 was arrested and charged with committing an immoral act with a ten-year-old boy. The charges were later dropped but Hurston was devastated by the ensuing publicity. By 1950 Hurston had returned to Florida, where she worked as a cleaning woman in Rivo Alto. Later in the year she attempted to revive her writing career. During the remaining years of her life she worked variously as a newspaper reporter, librarian, and substitute teacher. She suffered a stroke in 1959 and was forced to enter to a welfare home, where she died on January 28, 1960. I really like this character because you can notice that in her life she refused to focus on the limitations of the Black

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