African American History - Harlem Renaissance

1 hr. 52 min. PBS American Experience, 2023. Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space is an in-depth biography of the influential author whose groundbreaking anthropological work would challenge assumptions about race, gender and cultural superiority that had long defined the field in the 19th century anthropological work would challenge assumptions about race, gender and cultural superiority that had long defined the field in the 19th century.

1 hr. 23 min. 2004. Adapted from the theatrical biography of her life by Laurence Holder, this performance brings to life her story. A production of the American Place Theatre.

47 min. 2015. Library of Congress.
Dolen Perkins-Valdez and Marita Golden celebrate the birthday of American writer Zora Neale Hurston by reading selections from her work and discussing her influence on their own writing.

2005. 42 min. Produced by Films for the Humanities and Sciences.

2003. 3.35 min. Excerpt from American Passages: A Literary Survey.

25 min. 1999. Excerpt from Voices in Black and White: The History of Southern Literature.

Daniel Gueorguiv, New York Public Library, 2/23/21.

The official website of Zora Neale Hurston.

This collection present ten plays written by Hurston (1891-1960), author, anthropologist, and folklorist. Deposited as unpublished typescripts in the United States Copyright Office between 1925 and 1944, most of the plays remained unpublished and unproduced until a manuscript curator rediscovered them in the Copyright Deposit Drama Collection in 1997. The plays reflect Hurston's life experience, travels, and research, especially her knowledge of folklore in the African-American South. Totaling 1,068 images, most of the scripts are housed in the Library's Manuscript Division with one each in the Music and in the Rare Book and Special Collections Divisions. There are four sketches and six full length plays in this group. Previously known mainly for her fiction and autobiography, Hurston here reveals her high ambitions as a dramatist.