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72 Cards in this Set
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Born in Jacksonville, FL
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Johnson
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ordained as a minister
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johnson
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worked as a teacher
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Johnson
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admitted to the bar
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johnson
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appointed consul in venezuela and Nicaragua
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johnson
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wrote songs and light opera
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johnson
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Gods trombones
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johnson
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"the creation"
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johnson
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"go down, death"
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johnson
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Many rural images
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johnson
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poems tnd to be mini sermons
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johnson
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Born in New York city
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Cullen
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Son of a methodist minister
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Cullen
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began writing poetry at the age of 14
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Cullen
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Studied at New York University, graduated in 1923
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Cullen
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Earned a masters degree at Harvard
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Cullen
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Remembered as a lyric poet
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Cullen
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Highly influenced by Keats and Shelley
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Cullen
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Unlike Highes and Mckay, lacked the background to comment from personal experience on the common themes of black poets
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Cullen
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Color
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Cullen
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Copper sun
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Cullen
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The Ballad of the borwn girl
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Cullen
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The black christ and other poems
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Cullen
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The Medea and some other poems
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Cullen
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On there i stand an anthology of the best poems
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Cullen
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My souls high song
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Cullen
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One Way to heaven
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Cullen
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The last zoo- childrens stories
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Cullen
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My lives and how i lost them- childrens stories
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Cullen
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St. Louis Woman
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Cullen
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Spent her shildhood in Eatonville
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Hurston
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Studied at Howard Univ.
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Hurston
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Moved to New York City in 1925
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Hurston
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Recognized as a writer who portrayed her own cultual heritage
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Hurston
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Attended graduate school at colombia Univ.
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Hurston
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Second career- folklorist
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Hurston
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Forgotten until research by Alice Walker brought her into prominence in the mid- seventies
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Hurston
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Jonas gourd vine
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Hurston
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Mules and men(short story collection)
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Hurston
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Their eyes were watching god
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Hurston
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Dust tracks on a road
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Hurston
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Tell me horse(shot story collection)
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Hurston
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zmoses, man of the mountain
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Hurston
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born on Feb.1, 1902 in Joplin, MO
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Hughes
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began writing poetry in high school
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Hughes
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Enrolled in Colombia Univ. in NYC, left school because he was lonely
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Hughes
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Wored in a variet of jobs;sailed the globe on cargo ships and traveled to africa
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Hughes
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Returned to school at Lincoln Univ. and recieved his BA
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Hughes
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Discovered by Vichel Lindsey
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Hughes
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Became a prominent figure in the Harlem renaissance
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Hughes
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traveled extensively to promote his own poetry and to encourage other young black writers
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Hughes
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montage of a Dream Deferred
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Hughes
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"The Negro speaks of rivers"
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Hughes
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The weary blues
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Hughes
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The dream keeper
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Hughes
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fields of wonder
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Hughes
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Born in Sunny Ville, Jamaica
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McKay
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Began writing poetry at the age of ten
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McKay
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immigrated to US in 1912
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McKay
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Enrolled at Tuskagee institute to study agronomy
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McKay
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Transferred to Kansas city college
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McKay
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returned to Jamaica, attained only menial employment
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McKay
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Editor of the liberator, a socialist publication
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McKay
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Best remembered for his sonnets
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McKay
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acknowledged by Winston Churchill during WWII- "if we must die"
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Mckay
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lived in Enland in 1919- 1921 then returned to US
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McKay
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Became a US citizen in 1940
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McKay
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The tropics in New York
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McKay
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Harlem Shadows
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McKay
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AMERICA
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McKay
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If we must die
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McKay
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The barrier
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McKay
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