Fieldwork footage from the rural southern United States (1928)

Zora Neale Hurston was a anthropologist who documented African American life from a Southern perspective during the Harlem Renaissance. She went on to become a prolific writer as well. She is the one who captured these images. It is some of the rarest footage of southern black communities filled with images of happiness as the documentarian was in this case not the captors but instead a kinsmen. This is why her work is so important.

Encyclopedia of Alabama: Africatown

Encyclopedia of Alabama: Africatown