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You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays,
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Washington, Carrie, 81, 103–104
Washington, Carrie Belle, 89
Washington, D.C, 292–293
Washington, Elise, 89
Washington, Eloise, 89
Washington, George, 290
Washington, Hattie, 94
Washington, Hattie Mae, 81, 103
Washington, Hugh, 81, 89, 102–103
Washington, Martha, 287
Washington, May Belle, 89
Washington, Rev. George, 81, 89–93, 95
Waters, Ethel, 136
Webster, Daniel, 285
Wesley, Charles H., 151–153
Wesley, John, 89
West, Mae, 63
“What a Friend We Have in Jesus,” 103
“What White Publishers Won’t Print” (Hurston), 143–148
“Which Way the NAACP?” (Hurston), 14–16, 300–311
White, Eartha M. M., 240
White, Josh, 136
White, Walter, 240, 309
White High School, Washington, D.C, 292–293
white mare, doctrine of, 276, 297–299
white supremacy, 2, 237
Whiteman, Paul, 56
Whittier, Florida, 199
Whydah, Dahomey, 42, 43, 45
Wienstein, 151
Wilkinson, Frederick D., 157, 165, 167
will to adorn, 48–51
William, the Conqueror, 191
Williams, DeWitt Everett, 298
Williams, Roger, 89
Wilson, Woodrow, 58
Winchell, Walter, 309–310
Winston, Henry, 270, 277, 282
Woodward, Dudley Weldon, 167
Work, John, 77
Workman, Doctor, 316, 320, 325
Works Progress Administration (WPA), 140
World War I, 282
World War II, 221, 307, 368
Wright, Richard, 3, 5, 8, 22, 129–130, 310, 311
Writers Project of the WPA, 140
Yale University, 124
Yates, Roland J., 353
“You Don’t Know Us Negroes” (Hurston), 1, 3, 107–116
“Zora’s Revealing Story of Ruby’s 1st Day in Court!” (Hurston), 315–320
About the Author
ZORA NEALE HURSTON (1891–1960) was a novelist, folklorist, dramatist, ethnographer, and cultural anthropologist. She is the author of four novels (Jonah’s Gourd Vine, 1934; Their Eyes Were Watching God, 1937; Moses, Man of the Mountain, 1939; and Seraph on the Suwanee, 1948); two books of folklore (Mules and Men, 1935; and Tell My Horse, 1938); an autobiography (Dust Tracks on a Road, 1942); as well as short stories, essays, and plays. She also wrote Mule Bone (with Langston Hughes), Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick, and the bestselling Barracoon. She completed her associate’s degree at Howard University and graduated with her bachelor’s degree from Barnard College. She was born on January 7, 1891, in Notasulga, Alabama, and grew up in Eatonville, Florida. She died in Fort Pierce in 1960. In 1973, Alice Walker had a headstone placed at her grave site with this epitaph: “Zora Neale Hurston: A Genius of the South.”
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Also by Zora Neale Hurston
Jonah’s Gourd Vine
Mules and Men
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Tell My Horse
Moses, Man of the Mountain
Dust Tracks on a Road
Seraph on the Suwanee
Mule Bone
The Complete Stories
Every Tongue Got to Confess
Barracoon
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick
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*This text on deposit at the Library of Congress is followed by a transcription of a religious service, but the punctuation and pronouns in that text suggest it was to some degree coauthored with Jane Belo, so it has been excluded here.
*This essay was drafted as part of Hurston’s work on the Florida Writers Project but was not published in her lifetime.
*Hurston wrote this essay and mailed it to Opportunity magazine after reading Locke’s negative review of Their Eyes Were Watching God in his annual review of literature from 1937. The essay has never before been published.
*This satire by Hurston remained unpublished in her lifetime.
*This essay exists only in Hurston’s handwriting. The bracketed passages have been burned away.
*The same story appears on the same date in an alternate edition of the paper as “Ruby, Facing Chair, Now Sued by Medic’s Widow for $100,000.”
Zora Neale Hurston, You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
