It is today the oldest incorporated African—American town in the U. Washington at the Tuskegee Institute. Second pastor is John Hurston.
Neale, who also gives Hurston her middle name. His family joins him later. Washington at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Wanders from family member to family member. Robert Hurston, in Jacksonville and with her other brother, Dick, in Sanford. Has appendix operation in Baltimore, home of her sister Sara, and decides to stay. September 17 Enrolls at Morgan Academy and earns money as a maid for a white trustee. Graduates from Morgan Academy. Summer Moves to Washington D.
Works as a waitress at the Cosmos Club and as a manicurist in a barber shop. Joins Zeta Phi Beta sorority. Meets Herbert Sheen, a student from Decatur, Illinois, whom she will later marry in Corresponds with the editor, Charles S. September Enrolls at Barnard College. Gildersleeve help Hurston get accepted at Barnard and awarded a scholarship. Declares herself an English major, but also studies anthropology with Franz Boas, the father of modern anthropology, who is a professor at Columbia University.
Summer Works on the journal Fire!! In February, uses grant money to gather folk material in Florida. May 19 Marries Herbert Sheen in St. Lectures with Langston Hughes at Tuskegee Institute. Meets Charlotte Osgood Mason. Works on a biography of Cudjoe Lewis, the last survivor of the last slave ship to leave Africa.
The other names for this study are Kossula and Barracoon. December 8 Signs a one—year contract with Mason to gather folklore. December 14 Goes to Mobile, Alabama, to interview Lewis.
March Boas encourages Hurston to gather folk materials from her native African—American culture, which is disappearing. May Receives her B. Summer Moves to New Orleans to do research on hoodoo and conjure. Studies Marie Laveau, a hoodoo priestess Hurricane of blows through Lake Okeechobee, drowning 1, mostly undocumented migrant—workers when the lake overflows its mud dikes.
In Miami, works on folklore material, which she entitles Negro Folk—Tales from the Gulf States , and scripts for the theater. April Visits brother John in Jacksonville. October Travels to the Bahamas for anthropology research. During this time she also works as a substitute teacher. Lucie County Welfare Home. Penniless and alone at the time of her death, friends from far and wide helped pay for her funeral.
She is buried in an unmarked grave in Fort Pierce. The city celebrates Hurston annually through various events such as Hattitudes, birthday parties, and a several-day festivals at the end of April known as Zora Fest. Barnard College dedicated its Virginia C.
Gildersleeve Conference to Hurston. Alice Walker's Gildersleeve lecture detailed her work on discovering and publicizing Hurston's legacy.
Skip to Main Content. Loading Close. Do Not Show Again Close. Sign In. Timeline of Zora Neale Hurston. She could look to the porch of the village store and see black men and women passing worlds through their mouths in the form of colorful, engaging stories.
January 7, Born in Notasulga, Alabama, the fifth of eight children, to John Hurston, a carpenter and Baptist preacher, and Lucy Potts Hurston, a former schoolteacher. September - June Attends Morgan Academy in Baltimore, completing the high school requirements. Summer Works as a waitress in a nightclub and a manicurist in a black-owned barbershop that only serves whites.
Summer Organizes Fire! February Goes to Florida to collect folklore. May 19, Marries Herbert Sheen. September First visits Mrs. Rufus Osgood Mason, seeking patronage. October Publishes an account of the black settlement at St. January Relations with Sheen break off. July 7, Divorces Sheen.
September Writes for a theatrical revue called Fast and Furious. January Writes and stages a theatrical revue called The Great Day , first performed on January 10 on Broadway at the John Golden Theatre; works with the creative literature department of Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, to produce a concert program of Negro music.
January Begins to study for a Ph. D in anthropology at Columbia University on a fellowship from the Rosenwald Foundation. April - September In Jamaica.
May Returns to Haiti on a renewed Guggenheim.
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