Harlem Renaissance Research Paper.

... Ashleigh McDougal Period - 4 Harlem Renaissance Research Paper Controversies have risen over the past couple of years whether or not authors who have written novels about black towns in the nineteen twenties and thirties were accurate. Authors have been accused of describing what life was like in black Southern towns differently than they truly were. In Zora Neal Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God the author correctly portrays life in small black towns and the conditions they were in during the early nineteen hundreds. Living in Southern black towns was far different then life in all white towns. Their Eyes Were Watching God depicts what life was like in small African American towns; and how it compares to life in U.S. Southern towns during the nineteen twenties and thirties. Down South, in the early nineteen hundreds, several small-all black towns were established. The city of Eatonville, Florida was

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