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=﻿﻿Zora Neale Hurston!!! = Born in Eatonville, Florida, Hurston moved to Harlem in 1925 at the urging of scholars Charles S. Johnson and Alain Locke. Hurston's short story "Spunk" and her play "Color Struck" had just won her second place in a writing contest sponsored by the magazine Opportunity.

Zora had two siblings: Sarah who was older, and John who was younger. Her father, John Hurston, preferred Sarah over Zora. He resented that Zora was born a girl. Her mother, Lucy Hurston, died when Zora was nine years old. Lucy strongly encouraged her to be independent and creative. She encouraged all of her children to "jump at de sun". After the death of her mother Zora was shuffled around by relatives and rejected by her father when he re-married. For a place to go, Zora resorted to being a hired domestic in several homes.

The literature of the Harlem Renaissance underscores the complexity of cultural issues faced by African Americans in the first part of the 20th century. Harlem had absorbed a surge of black population migrating from the rural South in the antebellum period of the Civil War. Black soldiers returning from World War I and upscale, well-educated urban blacks added diverse threads in the Harlem population. A search for identity and acceptance within the post-war white establishment became a central mission of many in this eclectic African-American community. How best to achieve this produced tensions within the literati of Harlem. The attempt to broker these tensions is dramatically mirrored in the literature of the Harlem Renaissance.

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