Zora Neale Hurston in the Turpentine Camps

Interviewee

• Bill Dudley, Florida Humanities Council
• Zora Neale Hurston
• Robert Cassanello
• Stetson Kennedy
• Tiffany Ruby Patterson
• Marianne Popkins

Files

Publication Date

2-2008

Abstract

Harlem Renaissance author Zora Neale Hurston collected music and oral histories in turpentine camps where working conditions were some of the harshest. Included are played recordings from Hurston and Stetson Kennedy. Historians Robert Cassanello and Tiffany Ruby Patterson contribute as well as Marianne Popkins, Director of the Winter Park Historical Association. Music by Fred Lee Fox opens the segment.

Keywords

African Americans, Race relations, Civil rights, Segregation, Discrimination, Racism, Jim Crowism, Federal Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration for the State of Florida, Turpentine industry, Zora Neale Hurston, Stetson Kennedy

Extent

00:05:03; 4 page transcript

Language

English

Digital Date

2026

Media Type

Audio recordings

Format

Digital Only

Identifier

fhc_audio-1096

Creative Commons

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

Recommended Citation

Dudley, Bill; Hurston, Zora Neale; Cassanello, Robert; Kennedy, Stetson; Patterson, Tiffany Ruby; and Popkins, Marianne, "Zora Neale Hurston in the Turpentine Camps" (2008). Florida Humanities Audio Archive. 97.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/fhc_audio/97