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Zora's Roots

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Catalogue Number:  041053
ISBN Number:  0795655234
Producer:  PBS Video
Subject:  Biography
Language:  English
Grade Level:  9 - 12, Post Secondary
Country Of Origin:  United States
Copyright Year:  2008
Running Time:  60
Closed Captions:  Yes


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This program examines the life of author and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston. The film follows Hurston, best known for her novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, to the subtropical paradise that shaped her childhood and her life's work - where she returned again and again for inspiration and solace. This documentary tells her story through the people who knew her and the places and events that she brought to the world through her writing.

<strong>Contains mature themes. Viewer discretion advised.</strong>

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