How It Feels To Be Colored Me By Zora Neal Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neal Hurston was born on January 7, 1891, In Notasulga, Alabama, and her move to Eatonville, Florida with her family. Eatonville was discovered by African American best known as the first black towns to be incorporated in the United States. Zora Neale Hurston wrote an essay in 1928, “How It Feels to Be Colored Me”. In the story, Zora describes Eatonville as a birthplace. Zora was the fifth out of eight Children John Hurston and Lucy Hurston had. According to the book, “Zora father’s, a Baptist preacher of considerable eloquence, was not a family man and made life difficult for his wife and eight children”. That was the leading cause of Zora moves to another country name Baltimore after her mom's death around 1904. Soon
First, in 1917, USA declared war on Germany and joined World War I with France, United Kingdom, Russia, and Italy. Second, Women didn’t have any right to say or do anything. For example, women didn’t have the right to vote, women were expected to stay home to cook and clean. Basically women job was to take care the house while the husband goes out to work to provide for the family. Then again, throughout 1910s-1920s The first wave of feminism started. In the end 1920, women become to have the right to do a lot of things. One example, could be, around 1920 women had the right to vote according to the 19th Amendment. At that moment, 1929 the great depression started where economics was bad. According to the History.com Staff, “The Great Depression (1929-39) was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world”. Where men were leaving their family to go to another state for jobs, Kids had to go to the farm to work because their family didn’t have enough money to support them. Then, in 1939 the War World II started where most of man had to leave their family to go fight in the War, but some of them didn’t even make it back home, if they do they make it back with a broken bones. To close, Jim Crow Laws appeared after the civil war made racism became worse and split the society which cause disturbances to America and also have a huge impact on Zora’s
Harlem Renaissance originally called the New Negro Movement it was in the middle Harlem neighborhood of New York City. Harlem Renaissance or The New Negro Movement was a movement of black art in the 20s and 30s: Poetry, drama, music, even things like sculpture and painting. Also it was a movement were African American began expressing their own identity as a group and they were able to find their self. According to History web, “The nucleus of the movement included Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Rudolf Fisher, Wallace Thurman, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Nella Larsen, Arna Bontemps, Countee Cullen, and Zora Neale Hurston. An older generation of writers and intellectuals–James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay, Alain Locke, and Charles S. Johnson–served as mentors.” Zora Neal Hurston was an amazing African American author who was recognized not because she was the first African American writer, but the first female that actually spoke up on her written about her cultural language and imagery. Zora didn’t experience racism till after her mom's death when she moved from Eatonville to Jacksonville. According to the book, “Her early childhood [Zora] was protected from racism because she encountered no white people”. Zora took pride in what she was and once said, "I have no separate feelings about being an American citizen and colored. I am merely a fragment of the great soul that surges within my