January 28, 1960 Zora Neale Hurston, author and playwright, died. Hurston was born January 7, 1891 in Notasulga, Alabama but raised in Eatonville, Florida, the first all-black town to be incorporated in the United States. Hurston described the experience of growing up in Eatonville in her 1928 essay “How It Feels to Be Colored Me.” […]
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Zora Neale Hurston – January 28th in African American History
By Chimsima Zuhri on January 28, 2014 in African American History, Author, January
Tags: Barnard College, Columbia University, January 28, January 7, playwright
March 24th in African American History – Dorothy Irene Height
By Chimsima Zuhri on March 24, 2012 in African American History, Civil Rights, Education, March
Tags: Barnard College, Congressional Gold Medal, educator, NAACP, National Women’s Hall of Fame, New York University, Presidential Citizens Medal, Presidential Medal of Freedom, social activist, Spingarn Medal, YWCA
March 24, 1912 Dorothy Irene Height, educator and social activist, was born in Richmond, Virginia. While in high school, Height was awarded a scholarship to Barnard College, but when she enrolled she was denied admittance because at that time Barnard only admitted two African Americans per academic year and they had already admitted two. Height […]
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