Zora neale hurston biography timeline book

Carl Front Vechten, Portrait of Zora Neale Hurston, April 3, Library tablets Congress Prints & Photographs Division, Forerunner Vechten Category, Washington, D.C.

American author, anthropologist, filmmaker (–)

Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, ^{[1]:&#;17&#;[2]:&#;5&#;} – January 28, ) was an American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the earlyth-century American South and published research on Hoodoo and Caribbean Vodou.^[3] The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in She also wrote more than 50 short stories, plays, an autobiography, ethnographies, and many essays.

Hurston was born in Notasulga, Alabama, and moved with her family to Eatonville, Florida in She later used Eatonville as the setting for many of her stories. In her early career, Hurston conducted anthropological and ethnographic research as a scholar at Barnard College and Columbia University.^[4] She had an interest in African-American and Caribbean folklore, and how these contributed to the community's identity.

She also wrote about contemporary issues in the black community and became a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Her short satires, drawing from the African-American experience and racial division, were published in anthologies such as The New Negro and Fire!!^[5] After m

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  Birth of Joseph E. Clark, a founding father of Eatonville, Florida January Hurston’s father, John Cornelius Hurston II is born in slavery in Alabama in January (d. ). December Richard and Sarah Potts (d. ) give birth to Hurston’s mother, Lucy Potts Hurston in Notasulga, Macon County, Alabama. April 7 Lewis Lawrence gives land for the establishment of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, later known as St. Lawrence A.M.E. Church, in Eatonville.  On alternate Sundays, the Baptists hold services.  February 2 Lucy (Lula) Potts and John Hurston II are married in Beulah Baptist Church, Notasulga, Alabama. August 18 Twenty–seven African–American men incorporate Eatonville, Florida.  It is today the oldest incorporated African–American town in the U.S.   Founding of the Robert Hungerford Normal and Industrial School, based on the principles of education espoused by Booker T. Washington at the Tuskegee Institute.    Founding of Macedonia Baptist Church on Eaton Street.  Second pastor is John Hurston. January 15 Zora Lee Hurston is born in Notasulga.  Named Zora, by her mother’s friend, Mrs. Neale, who also gives Hurston her middle name.&n