Zora neale hurston biography powerpoint middle school

Title: Zora Neale Hurston


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Zora Neale Hurston

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Birth
Born January 7, in Notasulga, Alabama
HOWEVER
Throughout her life, she claimed she was born on
January 7, in Eatonville, Florida.

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Parents
Mother Lucy, former school teacher. Died in
when Zora was only thirteen years old.
Father John, a carpenter, sharecropper, Baptist
minister, and mayor of Eatonville.
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Schooling

• , Morgan Academy in Baltimore to finish high
  school.

• , Howard University, received an associates
  degree.

• , Barnard College to study anthropology.

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New York

• She was encouraged by many people to move out to
  New York following recognition as a writer in a
  New York magazine, Opportunity.

• Once in New York, Hurston became a part of the
  New Negro movement, later to be known as the
  Harlem Renaissance.

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Return to Eatonville

• She returned to Eatonville following her
  graduation of Barnard College.

• There she collected materi