Dust Tracks on a Road

Dust Tracks on a Road, autobiography of Zora Neale Hurston, published in 1942. Controversial for its refusal to examine the effects of racism or segregation, Dust Tracks on a Road opens with the author’s childhood in Eatonville, Fla., the site of the first organized African American effort at self-government. It follows her through an expanding world of experience and intellectual growth to Howard University, where the writer Charles S. Johnson discovers her work and publishes...