Naomi Long Madgett and Lotus Press papers. 1937-2004 (bulk 1970-2003).

Blake, Eubie, 1887-1983

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Jazz composer and pianist. From the description of Autograph card signed : [New York?], 1979 Jan. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270904411 American ragtime pianist and composer. From the description of Autograph note signed with his initials on his visiting card, dated : [Brooklyn, N.Y., n.d., 1963-1983], to an unidentified recipient, [1963-1983]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270899295 American composer. From the description of Eub...

Reese, Carolyn

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Vest, Donald.

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Fair, Ronald

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Harris, Bill, 1932-

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Jones, Gayle R.

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African American author, poet, and teacher; b. 1949. From the description of Gayl Jones collection, 1975-2000. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70968746 ...

Tartt, Peggy Ann.

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Johnston, Agnes Nasmith.

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Long, Wilbur H.

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Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946

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African-American poet, anthologist, translator, playwright and an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Cullen was graduated from De Witt Clinton High School in New York City and from New York University in 1925. While attending NYU he held a part-time job as a doorman at the Grolier Club, a New York City bibliophile society. He took post-graduate work at Harvard University and received an M.A. From the description of TLS : Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Frederick B. Coykendall, ...

Owens, Carlotta J.

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White, Paulette Childress, 1948-

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Kocher, Ruth Ellen, 1965-

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Thompson, Julius Eric

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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...

Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000

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African American poet and novelist, who was an important figure in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. From the description of Of Robert Frost / Gwendolyn Brooks. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79334638 Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was born in Topeka, Kansas, on June 17, 1917 and moved shortly after her birth to Chicago's South Side, where she lived until her death. She authored more than twenty books of poetry, beginning with A Street in Bronzeville (1945), follow...

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967

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Poet, author, playwright, songwriter. From the guide to the Langston Hughes collection, [microform], 1926-1967, (The New York Public Library. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division.) From the description of Langston Hughes collection, 1926-1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 144652168 Langson Hughes: African-American poet and writer, author of Weary Blue (1926), The Big Sea (1940), and other works. ...

Oseye, Ebele, 1943-

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Faust, Naomi F.

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Hood, Nicholas.

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Detroit Councilman Nicholas Hood was born on June 21, 1923 in Terre Haute, Indiana. He received a Bachelor of Science Degree from Purdue University in 1945, a Masters of Arts Degree from Yale University in 1946, and did graduate work in sociology at Wayne State University. Nicholas and Elizabeth Flemister married in 1949. Elizabeth worked as an associate professor at Wayne State University with a Ph.D. in educational sociology. They had four children. Reverend Hood came to Detroit from New Orlea...

Vest, Hilda

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Baker, Houston A.,

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Lane, Pinkie Gordon

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Pinkie Gordon Lane was born 13 January 1923 in Philadelphia, Penn. In 1945 she entered Spelman College in Atlanta, Ga. where she earned a bachelor's degree in English and art. In 1956 she received her master's degree in English from Atlanta University, and later accepted a position as instructor of English at Southern University in Baton Rouge, La., where she remained and served as Director of the English Department from 1974 until her retirement in 1986. Following retirement, she b...

Breman, Paul, 1957-

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Miller, Mayme White

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May Miller (1899-1995), African American poet, educator, and playwright, daughter of Kelly and Annie May Miller. From the description of May Miller papers, 1906-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 244001178 ...

Boone House.

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Angelou, Maya, 1928-2014

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Maya Angelou (b. Marguerite Annie Johnson, April 4, 1928, St. Louis, MO–d. May 28, 2014, Winston-Salem, NC) was an American poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and was credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She became a poet and writer after a series of occupations as a young adult, including fry cook, sex worker, nightclub dancer and performer, c...

Knight, Etheridge, 1931-1991

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Ethridge Knight Jr. (son of Etheridge Sr. and Belzora Cozart Knight) was born in Corinth, Mississippi, on 19 April 1931. He grew up in Corinth and Paducah, Kentucky, attended local schools and dropped out after the eighth grade. He joined the United States Army in 1947. He was wounded during the Korean Conflict and developed an addiction to drugs and alcohol. After his discharge from the service he turned to crime in support of his habit and in 1960 was arrested for armed robbery. He was incarce...

Derricotte, Toi, 1941-....

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Crew, Louie, 1936-

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Williams, Willie J.

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Madhubuti, Haki R., 1942-

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Poet, essayist, and entrepreneur Haki Madhubuti embodies the true spirit of a renaissance man as he moves seamlessly through the worlds of literature, business and education. Born in Detroit, Michigan and moving to Chicago after his mother's death, Madhubuti would sow the seeds that later led to his success. After graduation from high school, Madhubuti (known then as Don Lee) was drafted into military service, where he used books as his escape. After his tour of duty, he returned to Chicago and ...

Love, Monifa A.

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Reed, Ishmael, 1938-....

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Writer Ishmael Reed was born on February 22, 1938 in Chattanooga, Tennessee to Thelma Virginia Coleman, a homemaker and salesclerk, and Henry Lenoir, a fundraiser for the YMCA. In 1942, he moved to Buffalo, New York with his mother and stepfather, Bennie Stephen Reed, an autoworker. Reed graduated from East High School in 1956, enrolled in night classes at Millard Fillmore College, and later transferred to SUNY Buffalo.In 1961, Reed began writing forEmpire State Weekly, during which time he inte...

Michigan State University Press.

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The MSU Press began operations in 1947 under the direction of Michigan State College's Special Assistant to the President in Charge of Public Relations, and over the years it has been administered by various offices. Since 1980, the Press has reported to the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies. From the description of Press Records, 1950-1966. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122389344 ...

Eastern Michigan University. Dept. of English.

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Boyer, Jill Witherspoon, 1947-

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Madgett, Naomi Cornelia Long

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Poet, writer, teacher, and book publisher; b. Namoi Cornelia Long, 1923; married William Harold Madgett 1954 (divorced 1960); married Leonard Patton Andrews 1972 (died, 1996). From the description of Naomi Long Madget papers, 1932-1993. (Fisk University). WorldCat record id: 70972589 Prominent Detroit poet, educator, publisher, and editor, recognized for her significant contribution to African-American literature. Teacher at Northwestern High School in Detroit, MI and Profes...

Whitley, James R., 1966-

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Cobb, Pamela, 1950-

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Randall, Dudley, 1914-2000

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Randall (1914-2000) created the Broadside Press in 1965 in Detroit (Mich.). He ran the press out of his home on limited funds, managing to publish the major African-American poetry of the period. Randall supported himself as a librarian at the University of Detroit. He put all profits back into the press. In 1978, Black Enterprise magazine called Randall "The father of the black poetry movement." He sold the press in 1985. Randall died in Aug. 2000. The Clarke Historical Library has a large coll...

Lotus Press

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McFerrin, Robert, 1921-2006

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Archer, Dennis, 1916-

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Emmanuel, James A.

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Sanchez, Sonia, 1934-

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Poet Sonia Sanchez was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on September 9, 1934. Sanchez's mother died a year later, leaving the young girl to be raised by her paternal grandmother, who unlocked her gift for poetry. At age four, Sanchez learned to read, and by the age of six, she began to write. Unfortunately, soon after, Sanchez's grandmother died and the young girl drifted between relatives and family friends. Sanchez went on to spent three decades in Harlem, where she studied creative writing at Hun...

Dove, Rita Frances, 1952-

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Rita Frances Dove (born August 28, 1952) is an American poet and essayist. From 1993 to 1995 she served as the Poet Laureate of the United States. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1987, and also she served as the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2004 to 2006. Dove was born in Akron, Ohio and graduated from Miami University. She held a Fulbright Scholarship from Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany and received her MFA from the University of Iowa. She has taught at Universtiy ...