Zora Neale Hurston
An image from Their Eyes Were Watching God, one of the productions that also features Zora Neale Hurston.
Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston

January 7, 1891 — Notasulga, Alabama, USA

Zora Neale Hurston was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on hoodoo. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937.

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Their Eyes Were Watching God

2005

Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940

Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940

1940

Fieldwork Footage

Fieldwork Footage

1928

Ethnographic Films

Ethnographic Films

1929

The Gilded Six Bits

The Gilded Six Bits

2001