Zora Neale Hurston
American
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| Home | Zora Neale Hurston House | Fort Pierce | |||||
| Significant name | Eatonville Historic District | Eatonville | |||||
| 1903/00/00 | Born | Born | |||||
| 1919/00/00 | Zora Neale Hurston enrolls at Howard University, Washington, DC | Education | Howard University Yard | Washington, DC | |||
| 1925/00/00 | Zora Neale Hurston transfers to Barnard College on scholarship, studys anthropology with the Franz Boas | Education | Barnard College | ||||
| 1926/00/00 | Hurston and Hughes establish the short-lived but influential black literary journal Fire!! | Work | Harlem, NYC | ||||
| 1932/01/10 | The Great Day, a musical written and choreographed by Zora Neale Hurston, premieres on Broadway | Author | |||||
| 1934/00/00 | "Jonah's Gourd Vine: A Novel" is published. | Author | Jonah's Gourd Vine: A Novel | ||||
| 1937/00/00 | Thier Eyes Were Watching God - published | Author | Thier Eyes Were Watching God | ||||
| 1940/05/00 | Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 filmed | Director | Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 | ||||
| 1950/00/00 | Hurston finds work as a maid in Florida | Work | |||||
| 1952/11/00 | Zora Hurston reports on the first Ruby McCollum murder trial for The Pittsburgh Courier | Journalist | Suwannee County Courthouse | Live Oak | Ruby McCollum Murder Trial | ||
| 1960/00/00 | Zora Neale Hurston dies of heart disease at the St Lucie County Welfare Home, a collection is taken up to pay for her funeral and she is buried in an unmarked grave at cemetery Garden of Heavenly Rest, Ft Pierce. | Died | Fort Pierce | Florida | |||
| 1973/08/00 | Alice Walker finds the unmarked grave of Zora Hurston and buys a headstone for it. The inscription reads "Zora Neale Hurston: A Genius of the South, 1901-1960 - Novelist - Folklorist - Anthropologist" - 1901 birth year is wrong. | In Memoriam | Fort Pierce | Florida |
3 Creative Works by Zora Neale Hurston »
| Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
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| Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
| Jonah's Gourd Vine: A Novel | Author | Book | 1934/00/00 | |
| Thier Eyes Were Watching God | Author | Book | 1937/00/00 |
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| Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 | Director | Film | 1940/05/00 |
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