Zora Neale Hurston was born on this day

Happy Birthday to prominent author, anthropologist, and key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston. In the late 1930s, Hurston ran the “negro unit” of the Federal Writers Project, whose offices were in the Clara White Mission right here in Jacksonville. Learn more about Zora via the State Archives of Florida, and check out the audio recordings that were made locally at the mission.