Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston was a great American black writer who exists in the relatively docile realm of recording credits due to the folklore and anthropology studies she undertook, in part to gather details for her books. A graduate of Barnard College, Hurston also wrote in great length from her childhood memories of Eatonville, FL, the first fully incorporated black community in the United States, of which her father was the mayor. It was also Florida where Hurston, accompanied by Alan Lomax, discovered a classic blues performer named Gabriel Brown. In the '40s Brown took part in...