Editing Zora Neale Hurston (section)

==Pre-College==
In 1916, Hurston was employed as a maid by the lead singer of a touring [[Gilbert & Sullivan]] theatrical company.<ref name="Zora Neale Hurston">[http://www.zoranealehurston.com/biography.html About Zora Neale Hurston] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090416185654/http://www.zoranealehurston.com/biography.html |date=April 16, 2009 }}, Zora Neale Hurston official website, maintained by the Zora Neale Hurston Estate and HarperCollins.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://baltimoreauthors.ubalt.edu/writers/zorahurston.htm|title=Zora Neale Hurston|website=The Baltimore Literary Heritage Project|access-date=August 21, 2019|archive-date=May 14, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150514050306/http://baltimoreauthors.ubalt.edu/writers/zorahurston.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 1917, she resumed her formal education by attending night school at Morgan Academy, now known as [[Morgan State University]], a [[historically black college]] in [[Baltimore]], [[Maryland]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Monitor |first=The Christian Science |date=2023-01-17 |title=How Zora Neale Hurston claimed her space in history |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/Daily/2023/20230117/How-Zora-Neale-Hurston-claimed-her-space-in-history |access-date=2024-10-27 |website=The Christian Science Monitor |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Wrapped In Rainbows Summary PDF {{!}} Valerie Boyd |url=https://www.bookey.app/book/wrapped-in-rainbows |access-date=2024-10-28 |website=Wrapped In Rainbows Summary PDF {{!}} Valerie Boyd |language=en}}</ref> At this time, to qualify for a free high-school education, the 26-year-old Hurston began claiming 1901 as her year of birth.<ref name="Zora Neale Hurston" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.biography.com/news/zora-neale-hurston-biography-facts-black-history|title=Zora Neale Hurston: 7 Facts on Her 125th Birthday|last=Kettler|first=Sara|date=6 January 2016|website=Biography.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190421045452/https://www.biography.com/news/zora-neale-hurston-biography-facts-black-history|archive-date=April 21, 2019|url-status=live|access-date=April 22, 2019}}</ref> She graduated from the high school in 1918.<ref>[http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/hurs-zor.htm Zora Neale Hurston] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071212193528/http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/hurs-zor.htm |date=December 12, 2007 }}, Women in History.</ref>