Zora Neale Hurston Festival
Jet, March 7, 2005
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Caption: ZORA NEALE HURSTON FESTIVAL: Soul legend Isaac Hayes is congratulated on his recent concert at the Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities in Eatonville, FL, by (l-r) U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown and N.Y. Nathiri, executive director of the Zora Neale Hurston Festival. The festival is held each year in Eatonville, the nation's oldest Black incorporated municipality, and celebrates the legacy of the famed author whose hometown was Eatonville, located 10 miles north of downtown Orlando, Her books include the 1937 classic Their Eyes Were Watching God, now a TV movie starring Halle Berry (see cover story), and the acclaimed novels Moses Man of the Mountain, Jonah's Gourd Vine and her 1942 autobiography Dust Tracks On A Road. Hurston died in 1960 at age 69.
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