"Mr. Kenneth Grooms (L) and Mrs. Naomi Grooms' neighbor, Mr. Lawrence Martin, Esq. who knew of Mrs. Naomi Grooms, Zora Neale Hurston, Belleville Court and the Algiers connection."

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

"Mr. Kenneth Grooms (L) and Mrs. Naomi Grooms' neighbor, Mr. Lawrence Martin, Esq. who knew of Mrs. Naomi Grooms, Zora Neale Hurston, Belleville Court and the Algiers connection."

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,…