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Born April 19, 1931 • Corinth • Mississippi
Died March 10, 1991 (aged 59) • Indianapolis • Indiana
Notable Works “Born of a Woman” • “Poems From Prison”
Role In Black Arts movement
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Jessie Redmon Fauset
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Julia Ward Howe
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Rose Alnora Hartwick Thorpe
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Bunner, Henry Cuyler
Henry Cuyler Bunner
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Alice Walker smiling and wearing glasses, a beaded necklace, and a burgundy velvet top at the opening of The Color Purple in New York City.
Alice Walker
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André Leon Talley
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Ishmael Reed
Ishmael Reed
American author
August Wilson, 2003
August Wilson
American dramatist
Nikki Giovanni
Nikki Giovanni
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Ntozake Shange
Ntozake Shange
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June Jordan.
June Jordan
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Haki R. Madhubuti
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Bob Kaufman
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Gwendolyn Bennett
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T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic

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