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Zora Neale Hurston was a 19th-century American author, anthropologist, filmmaker. Zora Neale Hurston was an American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on Hoodoo and Caribbean Vodou. Read more on Wikipedia →

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