Zora Neale Hurston was a folklorist, writer and anthropologist whose words contributed to the Harlem Renaissance by adding a feminine voice in the movement. On January 7, 1891, in Notasulga, Alabama, Zora Neal Hurston was born. She was born into a family of former slaves; her dad, John Hurston, a pastor and her mother, Lucy Ann Hurston, a teacher. Over the following years of her mom’s death, Zora and John moved to Eatonville, Florida. After moving to Florida, John had remarried. Zora yearned for an education so she decided to go to college. She got an associate’s degree at Howard University and published her earliest works in the university’s newsletter. She also attended Barnard, Morgan State University and Columbia University, where she studied
