Heavenly birthday wishes Margaret Walker! Born July 7, 1915, Margaret Walker was an African American poet and author She was part of the African-American literary movement in Chicago, known as the Chicago Black Renaissance. She is known for her book, Jubilee and her poem, For My People. She died in 1998. Here are a few of her notable works:
You can read some of her poems here:
Heavenly belated birthday wishes Gertrude Bustill Mosell! Born July 3, 1855, Gertrude Bustill Mosell was an African American journalist, author, teacher, and activist. She served as the women’s editor of The New York Age from 1885 to 1889, and of the Indianapolis World from 1891 to 1892. Her foundational work, The Works of the Afro-American Woman in 1894, looked into the future to project women’s roles in the twentieth century, particularly in suffrage, journalism and higher education. She died in 1948.
Heavenly belated birthday wishes Ed Bullins! Born July 2, 1935, Ed Bullins is an African American award winning playwright and author who emerged as one of the leading and most prolific dramatists of Black Theatre in the 1960s. Sharing the tenets of the Black Arts movement, Bullins’s naturalistic plays incorporated elements of Black nationalism, “street” lyricism, and interracial tension. He died in 2021. Here are a few of his works:
Belated birthday wishes Thomas Sowell! Born June 30, Thomas Sowell is an African American American economist, economic historian, and social theorist. With widely published commentary and books—and as a guest on TV and radio—he is a well-known voice in the American conservative movement as a prominent black conservative. Here are just a few of his works:
Heavenly belated birthday wishes Paul Laurence Dunbar! Born June 27, 1872, Paul Laurence Dunbar was an African American poet, novelist, and short story writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Dayton, Ohio, to parents who had been enslaved in Kentucky before the American Civil War, Dunbar began writing stories and verse when he was a child. He died in 1906.
Read some of his poems here:
Heavenly belated birthday wishes Lucille Clifton! Born June 27, 1936, Lucille Clifton was a poet, author, and educator. From 1979 to 1985 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland. Clifton was a finalist twice for the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. She died in 2010.
Heavenly belated birthday wishes Gerald Barrax! Born June 21, 1933, Gerald William Barrax was an African American poet and the first African American professor at North Carolina State University. He was the author of five poetry collections. One of the poetry collections, Another Kind of Rain: Poems (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1970),was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the National Book Award. He died in 2019. Here are a few of his works:
Belated birthday wishes James Howard Meredith! Born June 25, 1933, James Howard Meredith is an African American civil rights activist, writer, political adviser, and United States Air Force veteran who became, in 1962, the first African-American student admitted to the racially segregated University of Mississippi after the intervention of the federal government. He wrote a memoir about his experience.
Belated birthday wishes W. Ralph Eubanks! Born June 25, Warren Ralph Eubanks Jr. is an African American author, essayist, journalist, professor, and public speaker. His work focuses on race, identity, and the culture and literature of the American South. From 1995 until May 2013 he was the Director of Publishing of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Here are just a few of his notable works, including his memoir.
Heavenly birthday wishes Beatrice M. Murphy! Born June 25, 1908, Beatrice M. Murphy Campbell was an African American poet and editor known for being the founder of the Negro Bibliographic and Research Center as well as the editor of its journal, Bibliographic Survey: The Negro in Print. All of her published works are under the name Beatrice M. Murphy. She died in 1992.
You can read some of her poetry.
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