The life and times of African American writer Zora Neale Hurston, a larger-than-life personality, controversial advocate for equal rights, and brilliant author of Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Born in a small town in rural Arkansas, Daisy Bates was a journalist and activist who became one of the foremost civil rights leaders in America. In 1957 she mentored the nine black students who were integrated into Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.