Zora Neale Hurston's Fieldwork Footage

Zora Neale Hurston's Fieldwork Footage

Zora Neale Hurston • United States • 1928

Zora Neale Hurston's ethnographic films, part of her effort to collect folklore of black communities in the rural south, provide a rare glimpse of African-American life in central and southern Florida in the late 1920s when few were documenting these communities.

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Zora Neale Hurston's Fieldwork Footage
  • Zora Neale Hurston's Fieldwork Footage

    Zora Neale Hurston • United States • 1928

    A glimpse of African-American life at a time few documented it.

    Zora Neale Hurston's ethnographic films, part of her effort to collect folklore of black communities in the rural south, provide a rare glimpse of African-American life in central and south...