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Zora Neale Hurston: Biography Harlem Renaissance Jim Crow Hurston & Jim Crow Hurston and her other works Hurston's Death and Resurrection
 * African-American woman
 * born January 1891 in Alabama
 * left home at 14, traveled with a all white theatre troupe
 * went to Howard University in Wash. D.C
 * moved to New York, 1925
 * published short stories
 * attended Barnard College, only black scholar
 * married and divorced 3 times
 * fell in love with a man half her age
 * refused to marry him because she didn't want to give up her writing career
 * wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God while in Haiti after the break up
 * 7 weeks, character of Teacake is modeled after him
 * Continued to write, but white publishers rejected her work in the 1950's
 * black literature wasn't marketable anymore
 * $943.75 was the most she made on any of her novels
 * died penniless in 1960 in a welfare home
 * grave remained unmarked until Alice Walker erected a headstone in 1973
 * 1910-1920 black people migrated north to cities
 * Harlem, NY was the center for black culture
 * Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday
 * WEB DuBois
 * Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright
 * Tensions between artists over the portrayal of African-Americans
 * Many artists were able to achieve greater success in Europe.
 * "Jim Crow" probably originated in the 1830's by minstrel performers
 * separate facilities for blacks and whites
 * violence, especially mob violence was common and condoned
 * interracial marriage was illegal
 * her most humiliating Jim Crow experience took place in New York, not the South
 * would sleep in her car instead of being segregated
 * trick business owners to get around Jim Crow laws
 * Hurston wanted Black Americans to turn within to find their cultural and spiritual center
 * continued writing until her death even though publishers rejected several novels
 * wrote Mules and Men and Jonah's Gourd Vine
 * wrote more than 50 short stories and plays
 * wrote a series of articles for the Pittsburgh Courier
 * Their Eyes Were Watching God was published 1937
 * author Richard Wright that Hurston pandered to whites
 * stated the novel carried, "no theme, no message, no thought"
 * Hurston's response to the criticism was that she regretted writing the novel
 * lost all her money and died in 1960, poor and unknown
 * 1970's Alice Walker posed as Hurston's neice to get information about her from Eatonville.
 * Walker writes and article called "In Search of Zora Neale Hurston" which propels Hurston back into popularity.
 * Walker finds Hurston's grave and commissions a headstone