Day 7 Black History Month 2021 - Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960)
For day seven of Black History Month, we’d like to highlight Zora Neale Hurston, an American anthropologist, author and filmmaker. She studied anthropology at Howard University, Barnard College and Columbia University. She began to write plays and novels in Harlem, New York during the Harlem Renaissance. Her work eventually led her to the Southern United States, where she began to catalog and collect folk and cultural stories from African-American communities in that area. She would eventually publish these stories in a book entitled “Mules and Men.” The work she is best known for, is a novel entitled “Their Eyes Were Watching God” which was released in 1937 at the height of the Harlem Renaissance.
“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.” ― Zora Neale Hurston
Books:
Mules and Men, Their Eyes Were Watching God