Bison For Life: 10 Famous Ladies Who Went To Howard University
Zora Neale Hurston
The famed author who published such classics as Their Eyes Were Watching God began her undergraduate studies in 1918. She was one of the first members of Zeta Phi Beta while at HU and co-founded the university’s student paper, The Hilltop. She earned her associate’s degree in 1920 and wrote John Redding Goes to Sea the following year, which qualified her to become a member of writer and educator Alain Locke’s literary club known as The Stylus. She left in 1924.