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Maya Angelou
Author, Poet / 1928 -
Maya Angelou is a poet and prize-winning memoirist. She is the author of the critically acclaimed I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
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Langston Hughes
Playwright, Poet / 1902 - 1967
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James Baldwin
Writer / 1924 - 1987
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Toni Morrison
Writer / 1931 -
Toni Morrison is a Nobel Prize- and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist. Among her best known novels are The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon and Beloved.
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Alice Walker
Civil Rights Activist, Women's Rights Activist, Author / 1944 -
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Zora Neale Hurston
Civil Rights Activist, Author / 1891 - 1960
Anthropologist and novelist Zora Neale Hurston was a fixture of the Harlem Renaissance before writing her masterwork, Their Eyes Were Watching God.
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