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  • 6/27/2023
Raised in the small all-Black Florida town of Eatonville, Zora Neale Hurston studied at Howard University before arrivin | dG1fa2NMR2xieTZYSXc
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00:00 on American Experience, an influential author whose groundbreaking anthropological work would
00:05 reclaim, honor, and celebrate Black life on its own terms. She was an innovator, but the content
00:12 is rooted in the research that she did. It was anthropology that really showed Hurston that she
00:18 could write about her culture. Zora Neale Hurston, claiming a space on American Experience.

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