1. Zora Neal Hurston “The Moon’s Favorite Child” Her Life and Times

2. 1885 Court declared 1891 - Zora was born in Notasulga, Alabama
past Civil Rights Act
unconstitutional,
blacks no longer admitted
to any public place.
Zora was born in Notasulga,
Alabama
1892 -her family moved to Eatonville,
Florida
1887 Joe Clark founded Eatonville, Florida, the first African American settlement in the US to be incorporated.
1890 Suffragists (supporters of woman suffrage) held conventions, waged state-by-state campaigns, and distributed literature to win support for their cause, equal rights for women.
Scanned from Speak, So We Can Speak Again

3. 1891 - James Naismith invents basketball
Edison patents "transmission of signals electrically" (radio)
1896- Plessy v. Ferguson, "separate but equal”

4. 1898 United States Defeated Spain in the Spanish-American War
1903 Wright Brothers made first successful airplane flight
1900's Booker T.
Washington, former slave,
“urged blacks to stop
demanding
political power and
social equality and
concentrate
on economic advancement.
Joe Clark on the steps of his store

5. 1906-1908 Race riots Brownsville & Atlanta
1904 – Lucy Hurston, Zora’s mother dies
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
1909 NAACP
founded
“Jacksonville made me know that I was a little colored girl.”
1910 Southern
States had taken away or begun to take away the right of African
Americans to vote.
1905 –1912 – “I was shifted from house to house of relatives and friends and found comfort nowhere.”

6. US fought in WW1
Zora is living with her sister in Baltimore and attending High School at Morgan State Academy
“WWI hundreds of thousands of Southern blacks migrated to the North to seek jobs in defense plants.
About 400,000 African Americans who served were put in all black military units.”
“Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.” 

7. race relations tense in Northern cities… competition for jobs and housing between blacks and whites.
Howard University Washington, DC
th Amendment to the US Constitution gave American women right to vote

8. 1920’s The Harlem Renaissance era Harlem New York James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Jessie Redmon Fauset, and Jean Toomer.
Barnard College at Columbia University New York
“I felt that I was highly privileged and determined to make the
most of it. I did not resolved the be a grind, however to show
the white folks that I had brains. I took it for granted they knew that”.
1927 Lindbergh flies solo across the Atlantic Ocean, 1st talking movie made
1929 stock market crashes, begins the “Great Depression”

9. October 1929 - Great Depression. Hard times for all esp
October Great Depression. Hard times for all esp. blacks who suffered from job discrimination. "Last Hired and First Fired" became a popular slogan.
Received a fellowship from Dr. Boas. Traveled the south in Sassy Susie, collecting folk stories .
1929 – New Orleans - studied Hoodoo

10. 1929 – falling out with Langston Hughes over Mule Bones 1937 – Other
Books Published
The Hobbitt - J. R.R. Tolkein
Death on the Nile Agatha Christie
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
Think and Grow Rich Napoleon Hill
On the Bank of Plum Creek Laura Ingalls Wilder
To Have & Have Not Ernest Hemingway
And to Think I Saw it on Mulberry Street Dr. Seuss
Out of Africa
Isak Dinesen
1936 – Guggenheim fellowship to
collect folktales and study Voodoo
in Jamaica and Haiti
1937 – Published
“Their Eyes Were Watching God”

11. 1944 - Buys a boat and lives on it off the coast of Florida.
Writes articles for newspapers and magazines
World War II

12. 1954 - Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kanas
Desegregation of the armed forces began on a trial basis during the war, it became a permanent policy
“Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can anyone deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.”
“An increasing number of blacks began to move into all-white areas of Northern cities. Many whites then moved out of the cities to suburbs.”
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kanas
“segregation in the public schools was in itself unequal and thus unconstitutional. “

13. 1950 TV became part of America’s homes
1955 “Emmett Till, a black teen-ager, was beaten and killed while visiting Money, Mississippi. Two white men were charged with the murder but were acquitted by an all-white jury. The men later admitted to the crime. Till's murder sparked widespread outrage and led to increased support for the civil rights movement.”
1955 Rosa Parks, Montgomery, Alabama… Bus Boycott

14. 1960 Jan. 28th, Zora Neale Hurston dies
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organized by black and white college students to help with civil rights. “by staging sit-ins, boycotts, marches, and freedom rides (bus rides to test the enforcement of desegregation in interstate transportation).
1960 Jan. 28th, Zora Neale Hurston dies
1975 – Alice Walker puts a headstone on her unmarked grave.

15. I am not tragically colored
I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow damned up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and whose feelings are hurt about it. Even in the helter-skelter skirmish of my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world – I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
Zora Neale Hurston How It Feels to be Colored Me (1928)