Zora Neale Hurston Zora Neale Hurston was a Civil Rights Activist and a African American author

Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston was a Civil Rights Activist and a African American author. Born on January 7, 1891 and raise in Notasulga, Alabama. John Hurston was Zora farther he was a preacher and Lucy Ann Hurston was her mother. When Zora was thirteen her mother had pass and it did not take long for her father to get re married a young women who was six years older then zora. Zora did not get along with her step mother very often. She had seven siblings six brother and one sister. Hezekian Robert Hurston, John Hurston, Clifford Joel Hurston, Benjamin Franklin Hurston,and  Everett Edward Huston were her six brothers. Sarah Emmeline Hurston was her only sister. She got married twice her first husband name was Hurbet Sheen in 1927-1931 and Albert Prince III in 1939-1943. Zora did not have any children and all four of her grandparents were born into slavery. Zora died on January 28, 1960. At the age of sixteen she became the member of a traveling theater, Gilbert and sullivan began to domestic work inside a white household. Zora left home at a young age and started working to support herself. She went to Eatonville the first black community and was populated with a hundred and twenty five people their. She thought eatonville as a utopia   a place where african americans were able to live independent at. Zora went to grammar school and was considered a bright pupil. In 1917 she attended Morgan Academy in Baltimore and that’s where she completed her high school requirement. In 1921 through 1924 she attend Howard prep school and she also went to the university. She earn a associate degree at Howard and wrote her very first story for stylus the university literary magazine. Zora send her stories to various magazines and it encourage her to go to new york where there were more opportunity for african americans writers. Zora went to new york and was apart of a circle of creative african americans artists known as the Harlem Renaissance. In 1928 completed her undergraduate education at Barnard college is where she
studied under anthropologist franz boas and she graduated with a bachelor degree. The literature she wrote was african american, anthropologist, and racial struggles early twenties in the south. Zora famous work was book called Their Eyes Were Watching God. “Is the story of Janie Crawford, whose life is a quest to find true love. Janie narrates the story of her three marriages and her search for love to her friend Phoeby. When Janie is young, her grandmother sets her up with a man named Logan Killicks, who becomes Janie’s first husband.”(study.com). The connections between zora life and her work of literature was as a leader in the Harlem Renaissance was a helping and protecting the rights of african american and she is known for writing mockery and folk writing style. Zora book reviews Seraph on the Suwanee “The acclaimed novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist brings us a warm and very human look at life among the white “Florida Crackers.” “A moving novel.”– “Saturday Review of Literature” “A simple, colorfully written, and moving novel .” “–Saturday Review of Literature”.” (gooddreads.com). Dust Tracks on Road “Told in gusty language her story is an encouraging enjoyable one for any member of the human race -the N.Y Review of Books” (gooddreads.com)
The Sanctified Church )”The Sanctified Church”is a collection of Hurston’s ground-breaking essays on Afro-American folklore, legend, popular mythology, and, in particular, the unique spiritual character of the Southern Black Christian Church. Along with preserving the customs, music, speech and humor of rural Black America, “The Sanctified Church” introduces us to such extraordinary figures as Mother Catherine, a matriarchal founder of a highly personal Voodoo Christian sect; Uncle Monday, healer, conjurer and powerful herb doctor; and High John de Conquer, the trickster/shaman figure of freedom and laughter still honored in parts of rural Black America today. A pioneering ethnographer and folklore scholar, the great Zora Neale Hurston captured the exuberance, vitality and genius of Black culture with a vividness and authority unmatched by any other writer.” (goodreads.com) Achievements and award receive Zora receive the guggenheim fellowship for US and Canada in 1936. The Guggenheim fellowship is a award created in 1925 by  John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation a scholarship created for people in the arts. The Charles Mac Arthur Award for outstanding new musical. The Anisfield wolf book award for nonfiction. Zora Neal Hurston accomplish the Mules and Men it was a folk tale and also one of her famous book The Eyes Were Watching God. Her short stories, plays, and novels her time in the Harlem Renaissance being a powerful for standing up for african american people. Zora wrote about the time being a african american person in the south and wrote about what happened in her books. She was a very strong african american women at her time.I feel that Zora had impact in the word on how strong her words was.