The prolific author best known for Their Eyes Were Watching God got her start as an anthropologist, listening to the stories and songs of former slaves in Florida in the 1930s. About fifty years later, a Kansas City woman found a connection with her own history and community in the voices Hurston captured. Her one-woman play about Zora Neale Hurston now takes her all over the world.
Guests:
- Carmaletta Williams, former professor, Johnson County Community College, author and performer of Zora Neale Hurston: Queen of the Harlem Renaissance
- Deborah Dandridge, field archivist and curator, The African American Experience Collection at the Kenneth Spencer Research Library
