Alice Walker gained interest in Zora Neale Hurston's work in 1970. At the time she was writing a story for her black literature class at Jackson State College which "required accurate material on voodoo practices among rural southern blacks of the thirties" (Walker 63). When she read several books and essays written by white anthropologists and folklorists, Walker was appalled by their analysis of ... his exploration of her life which led Walker, in 1973, to Fort Pierce, Florida where Zora was buried" (Walker 69). Walker was so captured by Zora's work that she felt that Zora deserved more than...

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