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Zora Neale Hurston was born in 1891 in Alabama and showed a bright and independent spirit from a young age, encouraging her mother to "jump to the sun." After her mother's death and leaving her father's home at age 13, Hurston traveled with a theatrical troupe before graduating high school in Baltimore. Though she struggled financially at times, Hurston wrote numerous short stories and books throughout her life, telling folk stories to children, but did not achieve fame until after her death in 1960 when Alice Walker championed her work.
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Zora Neale Hurston was an African American author born in 1891 in Alabama who became renowned for her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. She overcame obstacles like her mother's death at a young age and financial difficulties to graduate from college and publish numerous influential works exploring black culture. Hurston wrote extensively in her life but stopped in the late 1950s before her death in 1960, after which she was buried in an unmarked grave until writer Alice Walker brought renewed attention to her work.
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Zora Neale Hurston was an African American author born in 1891 in Alabama who became renowned for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. She had a varied early life and education, working numerous jobs before graduating from college in 1928. Hurston wrote several books and published many articles in magazines, though stopped writing later in life. She died in 1960 in poverty and was buried in an unmarked grave until writer Alice Walker discovered her gravesite.
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Lucy is a 14-year-old girl who lives in Boston and goes owling with her grandfather, who was a conductor on the Underground Railroad. One day in the library, Lucy discovers a girl named Afrika hiding in the grandfather clock, who is a runaway slave traveling to freedom. Lucy and Afrika work together to sneak Afrika to the next stop on the Railroad, though it turns out to be a false station. They continue on together and eventually make it to Canada, showing that a strong friendship can endure much.
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Information on Brown Girl, Brownstones for the CAPE Literatures in English students who are studying this Paule Marshall text about a young girl's coming of age in New York in the 1930's and 1940's
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Zora slide show
- 1. Zora Neale Hurston The Biograghy
- 3. Zora loved going to Joe Clark's store to listen to stories.
- 4. Zora was a bright child. Her mother always told her to “jump to the sun” and that's what exactlly she did.
- 6. After Zora's mother died her fater married right away.
- 7. When Zora was thirteen she moved awway from her father.
- 9. It was hard at the show. All the sewing, packing, and unpacking.
- 11. Zora went a high school in Baltimore, and graduated successfully.
- 12. But when she graduated she faced a problem she didn't have money so she couldn't buy any food.
- 14. She also told folk stories to children.
- 16. She was a Indeependent teen.
- 17. But she was a alone women. She spent her days thinking of ideas, but she was still happy.
- 19. Zora was never famous, but wouldn't I be talking about her right now would I.
- 20. Alice Walker loved her books so she went out and told every body to read her stories and now Zora Neale Hurston's stories are world wide.