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When Zora Neale Hurston And Langston Hughes Took A Grand Southern Road Trip

PEOPLE Posted: April 17, 2019 11:01 am

The two great African-American writers happened to run into each other on the street in Mobile, Alabama on a summer day in 1927, and she invited him to ride along with her to Tuskegee and beyond, through Georgia and South Carolina and ultimately home to New York. As biographer Yuval Taylor recounts, they visited a traveling rural school, saw a Bessie Smith traveling tent show, had a session with a conjur-man, and plenty more. – Longreads

PEOPLE Published: 04.03.19

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