Zora Neale Hurston Viola Muse Transcription Zariah Grant Encoding and editing Stephanie Markwith

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https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/49 USA Florida Jacksonville Jacksonville Historical Society Viola Muse Collection (1959-18) Folder 7, item 5 Notes regarding the education and professional achievements of Zora Neale Hurston

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Zora Neale Hurston. Born at Eatonville, FlaFlorida. Educated at Morgan Acad.Academy, Baltimore; Howard Uni.University, Washington,; &and Barnard College for Women, Columbia UniUniversity, which she entered on a scholarship, specializing in anthropology at the suggestion of Dr. Franz Boas &and graduating in 1927,.

Received a fellowship &and spent 3three yrsyears collecting the folklore of the negroesNegroes in the South.

Author of various articles &and stories, including Hoodoo in America, pubpublished in the Journal of <lb/> American Folklore; How <choice><orig>it</orig><reg>It</reg></choice> <choice><orig>feels</orig><reg>Feels</reg></choice> to be Colored<lb/> and Me<choice><orig/><reg>,</reg></choice> in The World of Tomorrow; "The Gilded<lb/> Six Bits<choice><orig/><reg>,</reg></choice>" a short story in Story Magazine. See Hoodoo in America, The Journal of American Folklore, vol. 44, no. 174, 1931, pp. 317–417; How It Feels to be Colored Me<choice><orig/><reg>,</reg></choice>, The World Tomorrow, May 1928; The Gilded Six Bits, Story Magazine, vol. 3, no. 14, August 1933, pp. 27-41. Was Secysecretary to Fannie Hurst.

In the winter 1932, she produced a program of negroNegro spirituals and work Songssongs at the John Golden Theatre, N.Y.New York, which was universally acclaimed by dramatic critics. The program from this event, The Great Day: A Program of Original Negro Folklore, is available through the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art website. In May 1934, she exhibited her troupe at the NatNational Folklore Festival in St. Louis. Hurston's presentation was part of the inaugural National Folk Festival, held in St. Louis in 1934. See A Brief History of the National Folklore Festival, available through the National Folk Festival website.