Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun

Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun

Biography, Documentary, History

African American Women Authors

"Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun" intersperses insights from leading scholars and rare footage of the rural South (some of it shot by Zora herself) with re-enactments of a revealing 1943 radio interview. Hurston biographer, Cheryl Wall, traces Zora's unique artistic vision back to her childhood in Eatonville, Florida, the first all-black incorporated town in the U.S. There Zora was surrounded by proud, self-sufficient, self-governing black people, deeply immersed in African American folk traditions. Her father, a Baptist preacher, carpenter and three times mayor, reminded Zora every Sunday morning that ordinary black people could be powerful poets. Her mother encouraged her to "jump at de' sun," never to let being black and a woman stand in the way of her dreams.

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Pollard, Samuel

Grant 07-QRG-01

Bay Bottom News

2008

Humanities Council in AL, LA, DC, NY, MD, SC, NC, and TN, the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, the Southern Humanities Media Fund, Ford Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Copyright 2008 Pollard, Sam.

DVD

English

Moving Image

01.SM/PL.2007

576

Florida

1:24:00

MPEG-2

Anderson, Kristy

Pollard, Samuel