Title: Conscience of the Court | Encyclopedia.com
Headings: Conscience of the Court
Conscience of the Court
Conscience of the Court
Author Biography
Plot Summary
Characters
Clement Beasley
Mrs. Celestine Clairborne
The Judge
Laura Lee Kimble
Themes
Loyalty
Topics for Further Study
Justice
Style
Flashback
Dialect and Vernacular
Historical Context
Race Relations in the 1940s
The Harlem Renaissance
Compare & Contrast
Critical Overview
Criticism
Jennifer Bussey
What Do I Read Next?
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Laura Carter
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Judith Musser
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Laura M. Zaidman
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Further Reading

Content: Upon graduation, she combined her love of anthropology with her love of writing by collecting folklore. Her efforts produced 1935's Mules and Men. This book is historically important, as it is often regarded as the first published collection of African American folklore. Hurston went to Florida in 1935 to work for the Works Progress Administration before conducting anthropological research in Haiti. While in Africa, she wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) in only seven weeks. With its regional flavor and its black female protagonist, Hurston did not expect the novel to be important in American literature. In the mid-1970s, this book was popularized by feminist writers and critics such as Walker. Unfortunately for Hurston, she never enjoyed great critical acclaim during her lifetime. In the last decade of her life, she did some freelance writing and worked variously as a maid, teacher, reporter, and librarian. Hurston suffered a stroke in 1959 and died on January 28, 1960, in a welfare home in Fort Piece, Florida.