Oral history interview, 1976.

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Oral history interview, 1976.

Topics include early life in Buffalo, N.Y.; experiences at Howard University; poems and publishers; her parents' effect on her personality; reasons for deciding to write children's books; reactions to living in Maryland; racial discrimination; and women as writers.

Typescript : 66 p.Tape : cassette (2 hrs.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7345364

Maryland historical society

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Howard University

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Howard University is a private, federally chartered historically black research university in Washington, D.C. Tracing its history to 1867, from its outset Howard has been nonsectarian and open to people of all sexes and races. The institution was named for General Oliver Otis Howard, a Civil War hero who was both the founder of the university and, at the time, commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau. The U.S. Congress chartered Howard on March 2, 1867 and much of its early funding came from endow...

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Clifton, Lucille, 1936-2010

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Lucille Clifton (1936- 2010), African American poet and children's book author. She was born Thelma Lucille Clifton on June 27, 1936 to Samuel L. Sayles, Sr. and Thelma Moore Sayles in Depew, New York. At the age of seven, the Sayles family moved to nearby Buffalo, New York. From 1953-1955, Lucille attended Howard University from 1953-1955 and Fredonia State Teachers College (now State University of New York College at Fredonia) in 1955. Clifton's first volume of poetry, GOOD TIMES, was publishe...