Zora Neale Hurston Graduates Barnard, Earns Rosenwald Fellowship for Columbia

In 1928, Zora Neale Hurston graduated from Barnard College—one of the first Black women to receive a degree from the college—and was awarded a Rosenwald Foundation fellowship for two years of graduate study in anthropology at Columbia University under Franz Boas. Her field work collecting African American folklore from the Jim Crow South would produce 'Mules and Men' (1935), a foundational text of Black cultural anthropology.