Zora Neale Hurston

Writing · 1891–1960 · 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.

Known for

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Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940

1940 · Director

5.7

Fieldwork Footage

1928 · Director

7.5

Ethnographic Films

1929 · Director

Kossula: Last of the Takkoi Slaves

1928 · Director

Directed

6.5

Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940

1940 · Director

7.5

Ethnographic Films

1929 · Director

5.7

Fieldwork Footage

1928 · Director

Kossula: Last of the Takkoi Slaves

1928 · Director

Acting

5.7

Fieldwork Footage

1928