Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Resurrecting Zora Neale Hurston: Alice Walker

9th - 10th
In this video (2:20, Alice Walker discusses how Zora Neale Hurston's ability to portray black people as "undiminished human beings" shaped her as a writer. This is evident in The Color Purple which, like Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were...