Zora Neale Hurston

Novelist, folklorist, dramatist, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston wrote in her memoir, Dust Tracks on a Road, that she was born on January 7, 1891, in Eatonville, Florida, the first incorporated black town in the United States.  Listen to Hurston describe and perform songs found in the Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections: “Georgia Skin,” Zora Neale Hurston, June 18,…