WINTER PARK, Fla. — Nearly a century after author and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston brought her storytelling to Rollins College, students are bringing her voice back to campus in a historic way.
The student-written production “Let the People Sing” honors Hurston’s legacy and revisits her early visit to the school in the 1930s. Her original show, “From Sun to Sun,” was invited to campus, but during segregation in the Jim Crow era, was not allowed on the Annie Russell Theatre stage. It was instead performed in a recreational hall.
Now, her work is taking center stage where it was once denied…