Did you know Zora Neale Hurston—one of the most important writers in American history—was buried in an unmarked grave? This is the story of how a literary giant who captured Black life, language, folklore, and joy was nearly erased from the canon. Hurston wrote Black people as fully human at a time when the world refused to see them that way. As both a novelist and an anthropologist, she preserved oral history, spirituality, and cultural traditions that might have otherwise been lost forever. He