Special Collections, General Subject Manuscripts Collection

 

Reference Material 
(
Copies of articles and stories by Hurston, secondary papers about her, and miscellaneous material.)
 Ms. Box A

PUBLISHED ESSAYS ABOUT HURSTON (Ms. Box A, folders D 1- D9)
 

  1. "On Richard Wright and Zora N. Hurston," by June Gordon. Black World; August, 1974; v. XXIII, no. 10, p. 4-8. Photocopy.
  2. "The Novelist-Anthropologist's Life/Works: Zora Neale Hurston," by Ellease Southerland. Black World; August, 1974; v. XXIII, no. 10, p. 20-29. Photocopy.
  3. "In Search of Zora Neale Hurston," by Alice Walker. Ms. Magazine, 1976. p. 74-89. Photocopy.
  4. "Zora Neale Hurston," by Theodore Pratt. Florida Historical Quarterly, July, 1961, 35-40. Photocopy.
  5. "Zora Hurston: A Personality Sketch," by Fannie Hurst. Library Gazette (Yale University), no. 35 (July 1960), p. 17-22. Photocopy.
  6. "Zora Neale Hurston: The Wandering Minstrel," by Darwin T. Turner. Chapter in book: In a Minor Chord; Three Afro-American Writers and Their Search for Identity. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, <1971>, p. 89-135. Photocopy.
  7. "Zora Neale Hurston and the Eatonville Anthropology," by Robert Hemenway. Typescript, 25 leaves. Photocopy. Published in: The Harlem Renaissance Remembered; Essays edited by Arna Wendell Bontemps. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1972.
  8. Book Reviews of Works by Hurston.
  9. Clippings of articles about Hurston. Includes both contemporary articles, probably collected by E.O. Grover, and posthumous ones.

PUBLISHED ARTICLES BY HURSTON. MS. Box A, Folders E1 - E19

    1.    "High John De Conquer," American Mercury, pp. 450-58, 1943 or 44.
          Tearsheets & photocopy.
    2.    "How It Feels to be Colored Me," World Tomorrow, May, 1928. Pp.
          215-16. photocopy.
    3.    "I Saw Negro Votes Peddled," American Legion Magazine, Nov., 1950. Pp.
            12-13, 54-60. Tearsheets
    4.    "Court Order Can't Make Races Mix," Orlando Sentinel, Aug. 1, 1955. 1 p.,
          photocopy.
    5.    "The Tripson Story," Ft. Pierce Chronicle, Feb. 6, 1959. 1 p., photocopy.
    6.    "Hoodoo & Black Magic," Ft. Pierce Chronicle, Feb. 20, 1959. 1 p.,
          photocopy.
    7.    "Cock Robin Beale Street," Southern Literary Messenger, July, 1941, pp.
          321-23, photocopy.
   8.     "Drenched in Light," Opportunity, Dec., 1924, pp. 371-74, photocopy.
   9.     "Eatonville Anthology," Messenger, Sept., 1926, pp. 261-62, 319, 332,
          photocopy.
   10.    "The Conscience of the Court," Saturday Evening Post, May 18, 1950, pp.
          22 ff., photocopy.
   11.    "The Last Slave Ship," American Mercury, v. 57, 1943, pp. 351-58,
          photocopy.
   12.    "Muttsy," Opportunity, Aug., 1926, pp. 248-50, photocopy.
   13.    "Lawrence of the River," Saturday Evening Post, Sept. 5, 1942, p.18+,
          photocopy.
   14.    "Spunk," Opportunity, June, 1925, pp. 171-73, photocopy.
   15.    "Sweat," Fire, Nov., 1926, pp. 40-45, photocopy.
   16.    "Color Struck, a play," Fire, Nov., 1926, pp. 7-14, photocopy.
   17.    "Review: Voodoo in New Orleans (Robert Tallant)." Offprint
      from Journal of American Folklore, Oct-Dec, 1947, pp. 436-38.
   18.   "Negroes without Self-Pity," [American Mercury, 58, March, 1943] pp.
          601-603. Tearsheets.
   19.    A Negro Deplores the Segregation Decision," letter to the Orlando Sentinel,
          reprinted in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, August 22, 1955. Tearsheet and
          photocopy. Cf. #4 above.

POSTERS, ETC.. Ms. Box A, F1-F2

Mules and Men [19x14 inch poster, advertising publication from Indiana University Press. Shelved in flat box on Hurston folio shelf.

Mulebone. Playbill for March, 1991. Photocopy.

The Woman in the Suwannee Jail by William Bradford Huie. Fragment of uncorrected advance proof, Boston: Little Brown, March 1, 1955. 5 leaves. See TLS to ZNH, April 19, 1955. 
Not boxed. Shelved flat with Oversize material.

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