The Harlem Renaissance was a great movement in history in which changed White people’s perspective of Black people. The Harlem Renaissance began in the 1920s and ended in the mid 1930s. The event mainly revolved in Harlem, New York and involved Black culture and the identity they wanted portray in terms of art. Poets, authors, and artists fought for their equality and suffered through everyday struggle. Black people used their art to explain and emphasize that they deserved the same equality as white people. Zora Neale Hurston was an important writer and civil rights activists during the twentieth century. She was born on January 7, 1891 Notasulga, Alabama and died on January 28, 1960. Zora was the fifth child born out of eight. Her parents were John and
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In 1924 she published another short story, “Drenched in LIght”, in the journal Opportunity undertaking Zora Neale Hurston’s career. In 1925 she submits her short story “Spunk” and the play Color Spunk winning second place on both and transfers to Barnard College to study anthropology. Hurston visited Harlem and meets young Black artists such as Langston Hughes and she becomes good friends with him. She married Herbert Sheen in 1927. In 1928 her essay entitled, “How It Feels To Be Colored Me” appears on The World Tomorrow. On 1930 Hurston and Hughes collaborated on a play called “Mule Bone” but shortly after their friensip ends because of a disagree on authorship. She was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship to study obeah on 1936. While Hurston was researching in Haiti she writes “Their Eyes Were Watching God” in seven weeks and when she arrived to the United States she published her novel. She was hired by the Federal Writer’s Project on 1939 to write about African American Culture in Florida. She then became a drama instructor at North Carolina College for Negroes and married Albert Prince III. On 1942 she received the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for her memoir “Dust Tracks on a Road” which was about race
In 1924 she published another short story, “Drenched in LIght”, in the journal Opportunity undertaking Zora Neale Hurston’s career. In 1925 she submits her short story “Spunk” and the play Color Spunk winning second place on both and transfers to Barnard College to study anthropology. Hurston visited Harlem and meets young Black artists such as Langston Hughes and she becomes good friends with him. She married Herbert Sheen in 1927. In 1928 her essay entitled, “How It Feels To Be Colored Me” appears on The World Tomorrow. On 1930 Hurston and Hughes collaborated on a play called “Mule Bone” but shortly after their friensip ends because of a disagree on authorship. She was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship to study obeah on 1936. While Hurston was researching in Haiti she writes “Their Eyes Were Watching God” in seven weeks and when she arrived to the United States she published her novel. She was hired by the Federal Writer’s Project on 1939 to write about African American Culture in Florida. She then became a drama instructor at North Carolina College for Negroes and married Albert Prince III. On 1942 she received the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for her memoir “Dust Tracks on a Road” which was about race