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This Day in Black History: Jan. 7, 1891

Zora Neale Hurston, author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, was born in Notasulga, Alabama.
By Britt Middleton
January 7, 2012 / 7:00 AM

Writer, anthropologist and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston was born in Notasulga, Alabama. The author of the iconic novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, was a prominent figure of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s.

 

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