By contrast an anonymous 1881 review in the Peoria Journal said: “ they have lost the wild rhythms, the barbaric melody, the passion …. hey smack of the North ….” Some fifty years later, Zora Neale Hurston in her 1938 book The Sanctified Church criticized Fisk singers, and similar groups at Tuskegee and Hampton, as using a " Glee Club style " that was " full of musicians ' tricks " not to be found in the original Negro spirituals, urging readers to visit an " unfashionable Negro church " to experience real Negro spirituals.

She was awarded an NAACP Image Award in 1986 and later won an Obie Award for her performance in the theatrical adaptation of Spunk, a collection of short stories written by Zora Neale Hurston.

Hurston later chronicled these experiences in her book Mules and Men.

The slides included numerous pictures of his travels with author Zora Neale Hurston, and direct voice recordings which were later digitized for preservation.

In another part of the exhibition, Ligon stenciled four quotes from a Zora Neale Hurston essay, " how it feels to be colored me ," directly on the walls: " I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background ," " I remember the very day that I became colored ," " I am not tragically colored ," and " I do not always feel colored.

" The hurricane that symbolizes the climax of Hurston ’ s story also has a historical inspiration.

" Miss Hurston seems to have no desire whatsoever to move in the direction of serious fiction … can write ; but her prose is cloaked in that facile sensuality that has dogged Negro expression since the days of Phyllis Wheatley … Her characters eat and laugh and cry and work and kill ; they swing like a pendulum eternally in that safe and narrow orbit in which America likes to see the Negro live: between laughter and tears.

Writing for the New York Times, Ralph Thompson states, “ the normal life of Negroes in the South today – the life with its holdovers from slave times, its social difficulties, childish excitements, and endless exuberances … compared to this sort of story, the ordinary narratives of Negroes in Harlem or Birmingham seem ordinary indeed .” For the New York Herald Tribune, Sheila Hibben described Hurston as writing “ with her head as with her heart ” creating a “ warm, vibrant touch .” She praised Their Eyes as filled with “ a flashing, gleaming riot of black people, with a limitless sense of humor, and a wild, strange sadness .” New York Times critic Lucille Tompkins described Their Eyes, “ It is about Negroes … but really it is about every one, or at least every one who isn ’ t so civilized that he has lost the capacity for glory .”

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Hurston developed this idea in her novel Moses: Man of the Mountain, in which she calls Moses, " the finest hoodoo man in the world.

Their Eyes Were Watching God is a 1937 novel and the best-known work by African American writer Zora Neale Hurston.

Exploitative tenant farming and sharecropping systems constituted the defacto re-enslavement of African Americans in the South where Hurston ’ s novel is based.

The all-black Eatonville of Their Eyes is based on the all-black town of the same name in which Hurston grew up.

Founded by African American author and historian Dr. Carter G. Woodson, The Journal of Negro History wrote, “ Their Eyes Were Watching God is a gripping story … the author deserves great praise for the skill and effectiveness shown in the writing of this book .” The critic noted Hurston ’ s anthropological approach to writing, “ She studied them until she thoroughly understood the working of their minds, learned to speak their language …”

* Polk County is also the name of a play by Zora Neale Hurston

The text is written, as is usual in minstrel songs, in a cross between the dialect generally spoken by African slaves and standard American English — the former being attested to as in use as late as the 1940s in the works of the black Floridian folklorist Zora Neale Hurston, and is an archaic form of contemporary African American Vernacular English — and this is seen by some as racism against black Americans.

The name " Beluthahatchee " describes a mythical " Florida Shangri-la, where all unpleasantness is forgiven and forgotten " according to Zora Neale Hurston.

The film title is also out of the 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston where the main character Janie's husband Tea Cake tells her about a fight he had with a man who had a knife, where in the fight Tea Cake " turned him every way but loose ", i. e. fought him but did not let the man stab him.

The New Negro is divided into two sections: " The Negro Renaissance ", which included Locke's title essay " The New Negro " as well as nonfiction essays, poetry, and fiction by writers including Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, and Claude McKay, and " The New Negro in a New World ", which contained social and political analysis by writers including James Weldon Johnson, E. Franklin Frazier, Kelly Miller, Robert R. Moton, Walter White, and W. E. B.

* 1891 – Zora Neale Hurston, African-American writer ( d. 1960 )

* Hurston, Zora Neale.

In 1937, while researching folklore in Haiti, Zora Neale Hurston encountered the case of a woman who appeared in a village, and a family claimed she was Felicia Felix-Mentor, a relative who had died and been buried in 1907 at the age of 29.

Hurston pursued rumors that the affected persons were given a powerful psychoactive drug, but she was unable to locate individuals willing to offer much information.

* January 28 – Zora Neale Hurston, American folklorist and author ( b. 1891 )

* January 7 – Zora Neale Hurston, Harlem Renaissance writer ( d. 1960 )

She was deeply involved in the Harlem Renaissance, especially with Zora Neale Hurston.

Hurst helped sponsor Hurston in her first year at Barnard and employed Hurston briefly as an executive secretary.

Both Hurston and Langston Hughes claimed to like Imitation of Life, though both reversed their opinion after Sterling Allen Brown lambasted both the book and the first film in a review entitled " Imitation of Life: Once a Pancake ", a reference to a line in the first film.

Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston.

Author Zora Neale Hurston criticized Eleanor Roosevelt's public silence about the similar decision by the District of Columbia Board of Education, while the District was under the control of committees of a Democratic Congress, to first deny, and then place race-based restrictions on, a proposed concert by Anderson.

Author Zora Neale Hurston was born in Notasulga in 1891.

Zora Neale Hurston grew up there.

Every winter, Eatonville stages its annual Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities.

The Zora Neale Hurston Library opened in January 2004.

In addition to this, Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God presents a brief overview of the founding of the town through the eyes of Janie Crawford, the main character of the novel, and some suggest a cipher for Hurston herself.

* " Zora Neale Hurston Dust Tracks Heritage Trail, Zora Neale Hurston Branch Library " at visitflorida. com

The main literary figures in his study are Percy Bysshe Shelley, Algernon Swinburne, Zora Neale Hurston, Rebecca West, Elie Wiesel, Peter Shaffer, and Philip Pullman.

He did his first field collecting without his father with Zora Neale Hurston and Mary Elizabeth Barnicle in the summer of 1935, finishing his BA in Philosophy at the University of Texas the following year.

Lomax also did important field work with Elizabeth Barnicle and Zora Neale Hurston in Florida and the Bahamas ( 1935 ); with John Wesley Work III and Lewis Jones in Mississippi ( 1941 and 42 ); with folksingers Robin Roberts and Jean Ritchie in Ireland ( 1950 ); with his second wife Antoinette Marchand in the Caribbean ( 1961 ); with Shirley Collins in Britain and the American South ( 1959 ); with Joan Halifax in Morocco ; and with his daughter.

The term " paramour rights " was first used by Zora Neale Hurston.

Hurston first wrote about the practice in her anthropological studies of the turpentine camps of North Florida in the 1930s.

McCollum's trial was covered by Hurston for the Pittsburgh Courier.