Harlem Renaissance

  1. How It Feels to Be Colored Me
    Zora Neale Hurston
    How It Feels to Be Colored Me
    Zora Neale Hurston 1928

    This personal essay reflects on being Black through memories of childhood and encounters with white Americans. Hurston recalls watching travelers pass through Eatonville, Florida, from her seat on a gatepost.

    8 min reading time