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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Photographs from Folk Beliefs of the Southern Negro, 1926, which capture African American folk culture in the South.

Photographs from Folk Beliefs of the Southern Negro, 1926, which capture African American folk culture in the South.

Citation Information: Puckett, Newbell Niles, “Folk beliefs of the southern Negro,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/f866e7fc1dd55aaa6983cd7acd71f722.

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Photographs from Folk Beliefs of the Southern Negro, 1926, which capture African American folk culture in the South.

A 1936 list of common superstitions in African American folklore in South Carolina.

An excerpt from a 1911 report on the successes and challenges of African American communities after Reconstruction.

Extracts from an address to Tuskegee students by Booker T. Washington in 1900 which offers Washington’s philosophy of education.

Excerpts from a 1903 report on the Robert Hungerford Industrial School in Eatonville, which prepared children for an agricultural society.

A photograph of the Robert Hungerford Industrial School, 1925.

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