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Harriet E. Wilson (1825–1900), author of Our Nig and the first African-American novelist. Kathy Y. Wilson (d. 2022), journalist, columnist, playwright, and commentator. William Julius Wilson (born 1935), author of When Work Disappears, The Truly Disadvantaged, and The Declining Significance of Race.
Spouse. Thomas Wilson, m. 1851 (died) John Gallatin Robinson, m. 1870. Harriet E. Wilson (March 15, 1825 – June 28, 1900) was an African-American novelist. She was the first African American to publish a novel in North America. Her novel Our Nig, or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black was published anonymously in 1859 in Boston ...
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Written by celebrated Black poet and thinker Audre Lorde (1934-1992), “Sister Outsider” is a series of essays confronting homophobia, racism, sexism and their intersection in the lives of ...
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (May 23, 1859 – August 13, 1930) was an American novelist, journalist, playwright, historian, and editor.She is considered a pioneer in her use of the romantic novel to explore social and racial themes, as demonstrated in her first major novel Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South.
Marion Barry, civil rights activist, politician. Daisy Bates, civil rights activist, publisher, journalist, lecturer. Carl Bean, AIDS/HIV and LGBT activist and minister. Arekia Bennett, voting rights activist. Mary McLeod Bethune, civil rights activist, educator. James Bevel, minister, leader of the civil rights movement.
African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745–1797) was an African man who wrote The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, an autobiography published in 1789 that became one of the first influential works about the transatlantic slave trade and the experiences of enslaved Africans.
Isabel Allende (born 1942), Chilean/American novelist, Eva Luna, Daughter of Fortune. Dorothy Allison (born 1949), Bastard Out of Carolina. Lisa Alther (born 1944), Kinflicks. Joseph Alexander Altsheler (1862–1919), The Young Trailers. Julia Alvarez (born 1950), How the García Girls Lost Their Accents.