Historical documents. What clues can you gather about Zora Neale Hurston, the time, place, players, and culture?
"How It Feels to Be Colored Me"
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Hurston's 1928 essay about racial identity.
"Turpentine"
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Hurston's 1939 report from the Florida turpentine camps for the Federal Writer's Project.
"What White Publishers Won't Print"
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A 1950 essay in Negro Digest.
"Sweat"
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A 1926 short story by Hurston.
Mules and Men
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The text of Hurston's non-fiction account of Eatonville and New Orleans.
Jump at the Sun
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A 1943 letter Hurston wrote to her friend Countee Cullen.