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Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston

Born: 1891-01-07 • Notasulga, Alabama, USA

Zora Neale Hurston was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on hoodoo. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937.

Filmography
Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space poster
Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
2023 • Self (archive footage)
Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun poster
Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
2008 • Self (archive footage)
Zora Neale Hurston: A Heart with Room for Every Joy poster
Zora Neale Hurston: A Heart with Room for Every Joy
2005 • Self (archival)
Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 poster
Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940
1940 • Herself
Fieldwork Footage poster
Fieldwork Footage
1928