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The Globetrotters were the creation of Abe Saperstein of Chicago, who took over coaching duties for a team of African American players The confessed Colorado cannibal Alferd Packer is released from prison on parole after serving 18 years. One of the ragged legions of gold and silver prospectors who combed the Rocky Mountains searching for fortune in the s, Alferd Packer also supplemented his meager income A massive mine explosion leaves nearly dead in Krebs, Oklahoma, on January 7, Southeastern Oklahoma was a prime location for mining at Six-year-old Suzanne Degnan is kidnapped from her home in an affluent Chicago neighborhood.

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At first, her remains were placed in an unmarked grave. In , author Alice Walker located her grave and created a marker.

Her work continues to influences writers throughout the world. MLA — Norwood, Arlisha. National Women's History Museum, Date accessed. Chicago- Norwood, Arlisha. Zora Neale Hurston By Arlisha R. Works Cited. Hemenway, Robert. Hurston, Zora Neale.

Novels and Stories. Cheryl Wall. New York: Library of America, Dust Tracks on a Road. New York: Harper Collins, Reissue How to Cite this page. Additional Resources. Zora Neale Hurston: Digital Archive.

Around the same time that her relationship with Mason was at a breaking point Mason eventually severed her contract with Hurston on March 31, and the country was heading towards the Great Depression, Hurston, desperate for an income, felt that the best vehicle for her work was the theater and the best type of production was a folk musical based on her memories of Eatonville.

Unfortunately, the play was forced to close, because Hurston had no producers waiting in the wings to keep the production going. Many people from her hometown of Eatonville acted in these plays; thus, her dream of a folk theater was partially realized. Hurston's association with Rollins College was significant for another reason. Robert Wunsch, who was the theater director who assisted her in the staging of her plays, after reading one of her short stories, "The Gilded Two Bits"; sent it to Story magazine, which published it in The Story was read by publisher Bertram Lippincott, who wrote to Hurston asking if she had a novel that she could submit to him.

Hurston replied affirmatively—and then on July 1, , she moved to Sanford, Florida, to write one. She wrote Jonah's Gourd Vine by September 6 and was evicted from her apartment on the same day that she received an acceptance letter for her novel. Jonah's Gourd Vine was published in May The next year Lippincott published Hurston's book of folk tales, Mules and Men. Hurston now entered her prime creative period in which she pursued fiction, drama, and anthropology simultaneously.

She had her Opportunity when she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in March and was able to travel to Jamaica and Haiti. She also continued her anthropological studies in voodoo in Haiti and published Tell My Horse in After this peak period in her life, Hurston struggled to survive. She began working for the Works Progress Administration on April 25, , and contributed folklore and interviews with former slaves to The Florida Negro, which was not published at the time.

This job lasted until , when the WPA was dismantled. Hurston had once again to search for a vehicle in which to express herself.

Her dramatic efforts had led nowhere, her ideas for new novels were rejected, and she had no more folklore to record. According to Hemenway, "In a sense she was written out. A few years later, Hurston's writing career received another boost when Maxwell Perkins, the legendary Scribner's editor of Ernest Hemingway, F.

Scott Fitzgerald, and Thomas Wolfe; agreed to work with Hurston. Unfortunately, he died two months later and Hurston was deprived of his masterful guidance.

Hurston did go on to publish in her last novel with Scribner's, Seraph on the Suwanee , a departure from her usual cast of Eatonville characters. For this novel, her heroes and heroines are white characters. Besides her difficulties in getting her work published, on September 13, , a mother accused Hurston of molesting her ten—year—old son, who was mentally retarded.

Although Hurston's passport proved that she was in Honduras at the time, she was devastated when the Story was splashed across the African—American tabloids. She sunk into a period of depression, even though Scribner's stood beside her and hired lawyers to defend her. She was acquitted of all charges when the boy confessed that he had falsely accused Hurston of the act. During the next decade, Hurston made her living by selling occasional articles to popular magazines and working as a maid.

She became obsessed in telling the Story of Herod the Great and was deeply discouraged when Scribner's rejected the manuscript in Money became a gnawing problem, as well as Hurston's health. She was evicted from her Eau Gallie home in In the next two years, she was hired as a librarian at Patrick Air Force Base in Cocoa Beach, but fired 11 months later.