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African American Poetry
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12th Grade
02/20/2011

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first known black poet
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Lucy Terry
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first published black poet
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Jupiter Hammon
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owned over 100 slaves
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Thomas Jefferson
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reflected animosity of Black America
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Claude McKay
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primitivism, "civilization is a corrupting influence"
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Jean Toomer
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the Black Cyrano
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George Moses Horton
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bought by benevolent slave owner
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Phyllis Wheatley
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never a slave, died of tuberculosis
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Paul Lawrence Dunbar
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first black lawyer, member of NAACP
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James Weldon Johnson
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highly allusive, not a part of Harlem Renaissance, very educated
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Melvin B. Tolson
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lived in many different places, not born a slave
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Arna Bontemps
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well-educated, did not want to be classified as a black poet, never fully developed
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Countee Cullen
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wrote poem while in prison
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Etheridge Knight
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