Zora Neale Hurston (1903-1960), folklorist and novelist, was best known for her collection of African American folklore Mules and Men (1935) and her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), in which she charted a young African American woman's journey...

From the 1930s through the 1960s, Zora Neale Hurston was the most prolific and accomplished black woman writer in America. During that thirtyyear period she published seven books, many short stories, magazine articles, and plays, and she gained a reputat...

From the 1930s through the 1960s, Zora Neale Hurston was the most prolific and accomplished black woman writer in America. During that thirty-year period she published seven books, numerous short stories, magazine articles, and plays, and she also gained...

THE NAME Fred Korematsu first appeared at the U.S. Supreme Court during one of the darker chapters of its history. Mr. Korematsu, then a 22-year-old American citizen of Japanese descent, refused to be interned as part of the World War II detention of Japanese...

Salt of the Earth, Conscience of the Court: The Story of Justice Wiley Rutledge. By John M. Ferren. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xiv, 577. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2866-1.) Wiley Blount Rutledge Jr., the son of a...