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Writing & Publishing
Frances Watkins Harper, a Black Poet and Speaker Who Fought Against Slavery
As a daughter to free black parents, Frances Watkins Harper was one of few black child…
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David Ruggles, the Owner of America’s First Black-Owned Bookstore
During the early 1800s, the United States was still growing and the spread of business…
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A Black Man Named Alexander Pushkin is Considered to be the Father of Russian Literature
Born in 1799, Alexander Pushkin would one day grow up to become who many consider to b…
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Meet the First Black Woman to Win a Pulitzer Prize For a Fiction Novel
Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia. She was the first B…
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Meet the First Black Woman to Cover the White House
Alice Allison Dunnigan had a natural talent for writing, and nothing prevented her fr…
