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Also Known As Melvin Beaunorus Tolson
Born February 6, 1898 • Missouri
Died August 29, 1966 (aged 68) • Dallas • Texas
Title / Office poet laureate (1947)
Notable Works “A Gallery of Harlem Portraits” • “Rendezvous with America”
Movement / Style Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
American poet
Claude McKay
Claude McKay
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James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson
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Countee Cullen
Countee Cullen
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Richard Nugent
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Jessie Redmon Fauset
Jessie Redmon Fauset
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May Miller
American playwright and poet
Arna Bontemps, photograph by Carl Van Vechten.
Arna Bontemps
American writer
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Gwendolyn Bennett
American writer
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Angelina Weld Grimké
American dramatist
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Alice Dunbar Nelson
American author
Pauli Murray
Pauli Murray
American civil rights activist, lawyer, and writer
Kevin Young
Kevin Young
American poet, essayist, and editor
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
American writer
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks
American poet and educator
Rita Dove
Rita Dove
American author
Gil Scott-Heron sings into a microphone onstage before a large crowd, circa 1974, wearing a patterned shirt.
Gil Scott-Heron
American poet and musician
Dr. Maya Angelou sits and smiles, wearing a black outfit, in a wooden chair at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Maya Angelou
American poet, memoirist, and actress
Yusef Komunyakaa
Yusef Komunyakaa
American writer
Kwame Alexander
Kwame Alexander
American poet and children’s author

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