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Written by Holly Gillogly   
Wednesday, 08 July 2009 12:33
Zora Neale Hurston came alive June 23 at Louisburg Library.

Portrayed by Carmaletta Williams, she told stories of her life to seven people gathered at the library, as part of the library’s adult summer reading program, co-sponsored by the Kansas Humanities Council.

“(Carmaletta) was dynamic and did a lovely job. I would go and watch her any time or place I know she will be performing,” Loretta Tow of Louisburg said. “I didn’t know anything about Zora, but I intend to read any of her books that the library has on the shelf.”

Zora Neale Hurston is considered one of the pre-eminent African American writers of the 20th century. Hurston, Langston Hughes and other African-American writers in Harlem created a renaissance of African American culture in the 1920s. The Harlem Renaissance had many gifted writers, artists and musicians who contributed to the African American cultural revival. But even Langston Hughes couldn’t claim his face had been on seven national magazines. Hurston was the only one who could claim that honor.

Carmaletta Williams specializes in African American literature and has served as a guest speaker on the African American experience at churches, colleges and other groups in the Kansas City area, the state of Kansas, nationally and internationally. She is the executive assistant to the president of diversity initiatives at Johnson County Community College. She received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Kansas and master of arts degree in English from the University of Missouri.
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