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Dust Tracks on a Road

autobiography by Hurston
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Dust Tracks on a Road, autobiography of Zora Neale Hurston, published in 1942. Controversial for its refusal to examine the effects of racism or segregation, Dust Tracks on a Road opens with the author’s childhood in Eatonville, Fla., the site of the first organized African American effort at self-government. It follows her through an expanding world of experience and intellectual growth to Howard University, where the writer Charles S. Johnson discovers her work and publishes two stories. Thus begins her association with a series of mentors and patrons who often support Hurston financially as well as spiritually. The most notable ...(100 of 197 words)

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