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The poem honors the famed Confederate Army officer Lieutenant General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, and was written by John Williamson Palmer (1825–1906), who stated that he had written the ballad on September 16, 1862; [1] however, Miller & Beacham, who published the song in 1862, stated that the song was found on the body of a Confederate ...
Jackson Mac Low (1922–2004) Lewis MacAdams (1944–2020) Carlyle Ferren MacIntyre (1890–1967) Percy MacKaye (1875–1956) Nathaniel Mackey (born 1947) Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982) Naomi Long Madgett (1923–2020) Haki R. Madhubuti (born 1942) John Gillespie Magee Jr. (1922–1941) Clarence Major (born 1936) Dora Malech (born 1981 ...
At the age of 12, upon the death of his father, Braithwaite was forced to quit school to support his family. When he was aged 15 he was apprenticed to a typesetter for the Boston publisher, Ginn & Co., [4] where he discovered an affinity for lyric poetry and began to write his own poems.
Major Jackson (born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American poet and professor at Vanderbilt University.He is the author of six collections of poetry: Razzle Dazzle: New & Selected Poems 2002-2022 (W.W. Norton, 2023), The Absurd Man (W.W. Norton, 2020), Roll Deep (W.W. Norton, 2015), Holding Company (W.W. Norton, 2010), Hoops (W.W. Norton, 2006), finalist for an NAACP Image Award for ...
Angela Jackson was born in Greenville, Mississippi, the fifth of nine children. [7] She grew up in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, where her father, George Jackson Sr., and mother, Angeline Robinson Jackson, moved during the Great Migration. [7] [8] [9] She was raised as a Catholic.
John Allyn McAlpin Berryman (born John Allyn Smith, Jr.; October 25, 1914 – January 7, 1972) was an American poet and scholar.He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and is considered a key figure in the "confessional" school of poetry.
Several members of Congress — including Jackson Jr.'s successor, Rep. Robin Kelly, D-Ill. — have encouraged the president in recent years to use his pardon power to help the former lawmaker ...
George O. Jackson Jr. (born October 2, 1941) is a photographer who documented the seasonal religious festivals of the indigenous peoples of Mexico. The photography project, called The Essence of Mexico, was conducted from 1990 through 2001 and resulted in more than 75,000 color images of the traditional rites and ceremonies of more than 60 different indigenous cultural groups. [1]