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Zora Neale Hurston in The 1920s

Zora Neale Hurston in The 1920s

Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) was an African-American writer, best known for the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God.

During the 1920s, Hurston was one of the leading figures of the Harlem Renaissance, an explosion of Black cultural vitality that sprang up in the African-American enclave of Harlem, New York.