"Belleville Court"

ID: 5200 ~ Source: Image courtesy of Ann Cobb. ~ Creator: Ann Cobb, photographer. ~ Date: February 2019.

This file appears in: Zora Neale Hurston: Dust Tracks on the Road in Algiers, LA.

This file appears in: Zora Neale Hurston: Dust Tracks on the Road in Algiers, LA.

Zora Neale Hurston: Dust Tracks on the Road in Algiers, LA.

On August 6, 1928, Zora Neale Hurston wrote a letter from 7 Bellville Court, Algiers, Louisiana, to Langston Hughes in which she writes "I have landed in the kingdom of Marie Laveau and expect to wear her crown someday” (Kaplan, 124). In Algiers,…