Zora Neale Hurston: Reclaiming a Literary and Folklore Legend for Alabama • Sharony Green

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Alabamians should know about Zora Neale Hurston, an African American anthropologist and folklorist whose literary and creative achievements occurred alongside those of better known Tallulah Bankhead. Born in Notasulga, Alabama, and raised in Florida, Hurston, a two-time Guggenheim winner, collected the everyday songs, tales and stories of black people and workers in the South and Caribbean during and following her heyday in Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s. This complicated woman did so while fiercely being herself politically and otherwise as her exploits, among them asking Winston Churchill to write the preface to her novel on Herod the Great, make clear.

Dr. Sharony Green is a Professor of History, University of Alabama. She was born and raised in Miami with roots in the Deep South and the Bahamas. Her recent published work includes a book on Alabama-native Zora Neale Hurston's trip to Honduras in the 1940s and a memoir on using her own life and Tuscaloosa as a "lab" to teach public history.

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