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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Sources
Further Reading

Content: She enrolled immediately in Howard University in Washington, D.C., where she studied for five years while working as a waitress and a manicurist. She also tried her hand at writing and was encouraged enough to go to New York City to pursue writing. There, she met other writers such as Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Jean Toomer. The collective effort of these writers is known as the Harlem Renaissance. Hurston accepted a scholarship to Barnard College, where she studied anthropology under Franz Boas. 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.