Zora Neale Hurston
American author, anthropologist, filmmaker (1891–1960)
Zora Neale Hurston was an American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker.
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In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was the only person alive to tell the story of…
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In the beginning, there was Nanny. Nanny knew what it meant to be a slave to men. And Nanny had a daughter. She saw what happened to her, how she chose to escape pain in oblivion. And Nanny was scared.…
