99th birthday of Margaret Abigail Walker

(Born 7 July 1915, Birmingham, Al, US)

Poet, novelist, academic, immensely influential figure in the development of African American letters, author of the 1942 classic For My People, a volume of poetry that focuses on African American history, Jubilee (1966), a family historical novel, and an array of other published studies

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