" 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."

Born in Notasulga, Alabama, Zora Neale Hurston grew up in Florida. Hurston later attended Howard University while working as a manicurist. In 1925 she went to New York City, drawn by the circle of creative black artists (now known as the Harlem Renaissance), and she began writing fiction. Annie Nathan Meyer, founder of Barnard College, found a scholarship for Zora Neale Hurston. Hurston began her study of anthropology at Barnard under Franz Boaz, studying also with Ruth Benedict and Gladys Reichard. With the help of Boaz and Elsie Clews Parsons, Zora Neale Hurston was able to win a six-month grant she used to collect African American folklore.

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