Hurston
Proper noun
Meaning
Hurston (plural Hurstons)
A surname from Old English.
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Examples
“After dey free us, we so glad, we makee de drum and beat it lak in de Affica soil,” he told Hurston.
Although her personal quotes show a disbelief of religion, Hurston did not negate spiritual matters as evidenced from her 1942 autobiography Dust Tracks on a Road.
Although the case was dismissed after Hurston presented evidence that she was in Honduras when the crime supposedly occurred in the U.S., her personal life was seriously disrupted by the scandal.
As the United States was decrying the actions of Germany’s Adolf Hitle, Hurston was clear about America’s problem with racial inequality.
At this time, apparently to qualify for a free high-school education (as well, perhaps to reflect her literary birth), the 26-year-old Hurston began claiming 1901 as her year of birth.
Among the women who are a focus of the book: Zora Neale Hurston, Audre Lorde, Fran Lebowitz, Grace Jones and Emily Warren Roebling.