Zora Neale Hurston

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  2/14/2022
  

  Zora Neale Hurston's Complicated Relationship to Black Race Pride

  by Lauren Michele Jackson

  A new edited collection of the folklorist, anthropologist and novelist reveals the broad, category-defying intellectual life of a "genius of the South."

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• SOURCE: NPR
  12/14/2020
  

  Ella Augusta Johnson Dinkins, Champion Of Zora Neale Hurston's Hometown, Dies At 102

  Zora Neale Hurston was the most famous resident of Eatonville, Florida, but Ella Augusta Johnson Dinkins spent decades organizing and building the town, then fighting to preserve the historical legacy of African American towns from the post-Reconstruction era. 

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• 11/22/2020
  

  A Surprise Encounter with Zora Neale Hurston

  by Fred Zilian

  The genius of Zora Neale Hurston has fascinated recent scholars, but one reader found traces of her legacy in an unexpected place. 

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• SOURCE: New Republic
  6-19-18
  

  The story of the slave trade’s last survivor

  Zora Neale Hurston’s drive to tell the story.