le, Florida on January 7, 1891, the fifth of eight children to the late Lucy Ann Potts, a country schoolteacher, and John Hurston, a carpenter, Baptist Preacher, and mayor of the all black-town of Eatonville and the first to be incorporated as mayor in the United States. Due to her mother's early death in 1904, she was passed like a bad cold from relative to relative for the next five years and finally after being rejected by her father and his second wife, she decided to leave Eatonville, earning a job as a m
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