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Zora Neale Hurston: Brief Biography Harlem Renaissance Jim Crow Hurston's Other Works Hurston's Death and Resurrection
 * Born January 1891 in Alabama
 * moved to Florida - Eatonville, 1st all black town
 * left home at 14, traveled with a white theatre troupe
 * went to college in Washington DC
 * moved to New York City
 * only black scholar at Barnard college
 * lifelong fascination with collecting, recording, and broadcasting black idioms
 * published Their Eyes Were Watching God in 1937
 * continued writing, but white publishers began rejecting her books due to lack of interest
 * married and divorced 3 times
 * affair with a younger man influenced TEWWG
 * wouldn't marry him because of her career
 * died penniless
 * made at most $943.75 on one of her novels
 * 1910 - 1930's
 * Black artists exploded into mainstream
 * musicians, authors, poets
 * Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Richard Wright, Hurston, Langston Hughes, WEB DuBois
 * Harlem, NY - large black community
 * black migration from the south to northern cities
 * influential figures had different ideas about how race should be presented
 * Jim Crow laws separated public facilities into "whites only" and "colored"
 * began in the 1830's
 * deemed interracial marriage illegal
 * brutal acts and mob violence were common
 * torture became a public spectacle
 * Hurston life spanned the Jim Crow period
 * her worst Jim Crow experience was in New York
 * doctor's office was taken to the laundry room for examination
 * Hurston used tricks to get around Jim Crow
 * bought her own car in order to not have to travel in poor conditions
 * would sleep in her car rather than stay in black hotels
 * in 40 years she wrote more than 50 short stories
 * makes no references to the Great Depression, the two World Wars or her own politics
 * continued to write until her death, did not finish her last novel
 * wrote many plays and a series of articles for the Pittsburgh Courier about the trial of Ruby McCullum
 * wanted African Americans to turn within to find their culture and spiritual center
 * wrote over 65 folk tales
 * employed as a story consultant at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles
 * Hurston published Their Eyes Were Watching God in New York on Sept. 18, 1937
 * Richard Wright, a black author, said it had "no opinion, no message, and no thought"
 * The response wounded her, and she regretted writing the novel due to this and other criticisms
 * died in 1960
 * March 1975, Alice Walker published an article title "In Search of Zora Neale Hurston"
 * 1979, Walker published an anthology of Hurston's work