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Also Known As Wilsonia Benita Driver • Sonia Benita Sanchez
Born September 9, 1934 (age 92) • Birmingham • Alabama
Notable Works “Does Your House Have Lions?” • “Homecoming” • “It’s a New Day” • “Morning Haiku” • “Shake Loose My Skin” • “The Bronx Is Next” • “Uh Huh: But How Do It Free Us?” • “Under a Soprano Sky” • “homegirls & handgrenades”
Movement / Style Black Arts movement
Mercy Otis Warren
Mercy Otis Warren
American writer and historian
Clare Boothe Luce
Clare Boothe Luce
American playwright and statesman
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
American abolitionist, orator, publisher, and author
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Tennessee Williams
American playwright
Barlow, Joel
Joel Barlow
American writer
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Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson
American author and leader
Ishmael Reed
Ishmael Reed
American author
June Jordan.
June Jordan
American author
Richard Wright
Richard Wright
American writer
John Hope
John Hope
American educator
Appeal…to the Colored Citizens of the World…
David Walker
American abolitionist
Ntozake Shange
Ntozake Shange
American author
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Lisa P. Jackson
American public official
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Susan Rice
American public official and foreign policy analyst
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Barack Obama
president of United States
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Abraham Lincoln
president of United States
Clarence Thomas
Clarence Thomas
United States jurist
John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams
president of United States
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Alexander Hamilton
American statesman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
president of United States

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