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Zora Neale Hurston (Writing)

Female

D.O.B: 1891-01-07

D.O.D: 1960-01-28

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....

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Cast

Fieldwork Footage

Fieldwork Footage

Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940

Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940

Herself

Zora Neale Hurston: A Heart with Room for Every Joy

Zora Neale Hurston: A Heart with Room for Every Joy

Self (archival)

Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space

Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space

Self (archive footage)

Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun

Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun

Herself (archive footage)

Crew

Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940

Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940

Director (Directing)

The Gilded Six Bits

The Gilded Six Bits

Writer (Writing)

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Novel (Writing)

Fieldwork Footage

Fieldwork Footage

Director (Directing)

Ethnographic Films

Ethnographic Films

Director (Directing)