Sitting on the Gate Post: The Story of Zora Neale Hurston

This biography of Zora Neale Hurston examines her childhood of poverty, abandonment and racial discrimination. After her mother died, Zora was sent off to a boarding school. When her father would not pay her expenses, Zora dropped out of the school. She wanted an education, but she had to work as a servant, until she joined a theater troupe. Zora pressed on in her dream to become a writer, attending night school and then college, where she studied literature and Anthropology, and rose above...