Zora Neale Hurston Biography
Zora Neale Hurston's was a famous short story writer, novelists,folklorist, and anthropologist during the 1925-1950s. She spent a great amount of time getting educated and making as many stories as she could and doing what she loved to do and putting to work the gift that God gave her. Additionally the Blacks were going through a rebirth from the Great Migration in which they called the Harlem Renaissance were black people blossomed and found beautiful ways to let their depression out in different ways such as poems, novels, songs, music, art and etc. Certain people who played a huge role during the time of the Harlem Renaissance besides Zora where James Weldon Johnson , Aaron Douglas, Langston Hughes, Jacob Lawrence , and many more . Because
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In 1917 she started school at Morgan College an historical black college in Baltimore, Maryland and later on in 1918 she began studying at Howard University where she became involved in a lot of activities and became the co-founder of an organization. While in college she took different languages courses such as Spanish , English and Greek. Some significant events that happened in Zora Hurston life was that in 1921 she published her first story “John Redding Goes to Sea”, and in 1926 Zora went to visit Harlem to research on the boas of the black life where she meet many famous artist that were black and commonly know in the word for there art like Langston Hughes and also during her time there her and Hughes created an Journal together. Another significant event was in May of 1928 Zora wrote her essay “How it Feels to Be Colored Me” which was very know in the community's and people really appreciated the book. Also Zora made a short book from an case she was the journalist at the book “Ruby McCollum: Woman in the Suwannee jail” which became a bestseller, and she was the first black female anthropologist. On Zora’s spare time she did a lot of studying and was very involved in the educational field and learning new and different thing also she stayed
In 1917 she started school at Morgan College an historical black college in Baltimore, Maryland and later on in 1918 she began studying at Howard University where she became involved in a lot of activities and became the co-founder of an organization. While in college she took different languages courses such as Spanish , English and Greek. Some significant events that happened in Zora Hurston life was that in 1921 she published her first story “John Redding Goes to Sea”, and in 1926 Zora went to visit Harlem to research on the boas of the black life where she meet many famous artist that were black and commonly know in the word for there art like Langston Hughes and also during her time there her and Hughes created an Journal together. Another significant event was in May of 1928 Zora wrote her essay “How it Feels to Be Colored Me” which was very know in the community's and people really appreciated the book. Also Zora made a short book from an case she was the journalist at the book “Ruby McCollum: Woman in the Suwannee jail” which became a bestseller, and she was the first black female anthropologist. On Zora’s spare time she did a lot of studying and was very involved in the educational field and learning new and different thing also she stayed