
Writing
Born January 7, 1891 in 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.

Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
Self (archive footage)

Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
Self (archive footage)

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston: A Heart with Room for Every Joy
Self (archival)

The Gilded Six Bits

American Playhouse

Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940
Herself

Ethnographic Films

Fieldwork Footage

Kossula: Last of the Takkoi Slaves