Zora neale hurston biography extended car

Narrator: In Spring 1940, Zora Neale Hurston, the celebrated Harlem Renaissance writer and anthropologist, arrived in Beaufort, South Carolina to study religious trances.

Narrator: For more than ten years Hurston had skirted danger traveling alone across the American South and Caribbean, documenting rural Black peoples’ lives and collecting their stories.

Educated at Howard University and Barnard, during her lifetime Zora Neale Hurston was considered the foremost authority on Black folklore.

Eve Dunbar, Literary Scholar: , Literary Scholar: She’s interested in all elements of Black Folk.

She allows that culture to be dynamic, to have a voice in modernity.

Irma McClaurin, Anthropologist: The research that Zora Neale Hurston did in Beaufort, South Carolina represents someone who understands that for people to trust you, you have to be in it.

And that’s what she does, she joins in with them.

Charles King, Political Scientist: She’s pl