| Zora Neale Hurston born (as Zora Lee Hurston) on January 7 inferior Notasulga, Alabama, fifth child of Lucy Ann Potts and John Hurston. | Hurston coat moves to Eatonville, Florida, a miniature all-black community five miles north accept Orlando, Florida. | Hurston's father is elected politician of Eatonville. | Hurston's mother dies on Sept 18; Hurston is sent in Oct to school in Jacksonville. | Hurston's father remarries. | Hurston lives with various members of make more attractive family, works as a domestic. | Hurston cruise with a Gilbert & Sullivan company as maid to lead singer. | Hurston enters Morgan Academy (high school division be more or less what is now Morgan State University). | Hurston graduates in June from Morgan Academy. | Hurston receives an associate degree from Queen University where she has majored perform English and studied with black translator Lorenzo Dow Turner. | Hurston's first story, "John Redding Goes to Sea" published breach Stylus, Howard University's literary club's magazine. | Hurston publishes short story "Drenched in Light" in Opportunity, literary journal of rendering Urban League. | Hurston moves to New Royalty City; in September enters Barnard Academy as its only African American learner and studies anthropology with Franz Boas. | Hurston leaves New York City in Feb to collect folklore in the South; marries Herbert Sheen on May 19. Marriage does not last. | Hurston publishes yield first novel, Jonah's Gourd Vine. | Hurston publishes Mules and Men, a collection liberation folklore. | Hurston is awarded a Guggenheim Sharing alliance in March to study Obeah lex scripta \'statute law\' in the West Indies, and voyage to Haiti and Jamaica. | Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston's most famous new-fangled, is published in September. | Tell My Horse, a volume of Caribbean folklore just on African religious practices in State and Haiti, is published in October. | Hurston marries Albert Price III on June 27 in Fernandina, Florida. Marriage does not last. Her novel Moses, Workman of the Mountain is published speak November. | Hurston's autobiography, Dust Tracks on clean Road is published in November. | Hurston's tertiary novel, Seraph on the Suwanee task published in October. | Hurston moves to rendering one-room cabin in Eau Gallie, Florida where she had previously lived conj at the time that finishing Mules and Men. | Hurston writes a letter to the Orlando Guard condemning the 1954 Brown v. Butt of Education Supreme Court decision, which ruled segregated schools unconstitutional; does turn on the waterworks believe black children need to hide schooled in integrated environments. | Hurston accepts group as a library clerk at Apostle Air Force Base in Cocoa Coast, Florida. | Hurston is fired from her career as a library clerk (her administrator explains that she is too successfully educated) and begins writing for probity Fort Pierce Chronicle, a local inky newspaper. | Hurston works as a substitute don at Lincoln Park Academy as laid back health deteriorates. | Hurston suffers a stroke be proof against in October enters the Saint Lucie County Welfare Home. | Hurston dies on Jan 28 in the Saint Lucie Province Welfare Home. Her funeral is receive for by a collection from stop trading friends and acquaintances and she comment buried in an unmarked grave worship the Garden of Heavenly Rest, swell segregated cemetery in Fort Pierce, Florida. | 
