Hired by the Pittsburgh Courier to cover the Ruby McCollum case.
May 1956 Receives an award for "education and human relations" at Bethune-Cookman College.
June 1956 Works as a librarian at Patrick Air Force Base in Florida; fired in 1957.
195759 Writes a column on "Hoodoo and Black Magic" for the Fort Pierce Chronicle.
1958.
Works as a subst.i.tute teacher at Lincoln Park Academy, Fort Pierce.
Early 1959 Suffers a stroke.
October 1959 Forced to enter the St. Lucie County Welfare Home.
January 28, 1960 Dies in the St. Lucie County Welfare Home of "hypertensive heart disease"; buried in an unmarked grave in the Garden of Heavenly Rest, Fort Pierce.
August 1973 Alice Walker discovers and marks Hurston"s grave.
March 1975.
Walker publishes "In Search of Zora Neale Hurston," in Ms., launching a Hurston revival.
About the Author.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON (18911960) was a novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist whose fictional and factual accounts of black heritage remain unparalleled. Her many books include Dust Tracks on a Road; Their Eyes Were Watching G.o.d; Mules and Men; Seraph on the Suwanee; Moses, Man of the Mountain; and Every Tongue Got to Confess.
WWW.ZORANEALEHURSTON.COM.
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