zora
...s father. Zora Neale Hurson was born and raised in a black town Eatonville, Florida and familiar with her own roots. She was everybody’s Zora in the community. At the age of thirteen Zora was sent to school outside of Eatonville and she discovers how others viewed her “ I was not Zora of Orange County anymore. I was now a little colored girl” she felt this change effected the way she viewed her appearance, as well as inside her, she wrote “ In my heart as well as in the mirror, I became a fast brown warranted not to rub nor run.” Baldwin was born and raised in Harlem. Growing up his father always advised him to be careful of the white people because he felt that they were only there to put down and be against black people. Baldwin did not understand what his f...