![]() ![]() Neither of them knew the other was in the area, so, as Hughes wrote, “we were very glad to see each other.” “No sooner had I got off the train” from New Orleans, Langston Hughes wrote in his autobiography, The Big Sea, “than I ran into Zora Hurston, walking intently down the main street.” The pair knew one another from New York but had each left town several months earlier. Joseph Street, on July 23, 1927, one of the most fortuitous meetings in American literary history occurred. ![]() Ornate and imposing, the century-old Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Passenger Terminal in downtown Mobile, Alabama, resembles a cross between a Venetian palace and a Spanish mission. Tailing Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes across the South ![]()
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