Lineage
Margaret Walker, “Lineage” from This is My Century: New and Collected Poems. Copyright © 1989 by Margaret Walker. Reprinted by permission of University of Georgia Press.
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Poet Margaret Walker 1915–1998
POET’S REGION U.S., Southern
Subjects Relationships, Family & Ancestors, Activities, Jobs & Working, Social Commentaries, History & Politics
Biography
When For My People by Margaret Walker won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award in 1942, "she became one of the youngest Black writers ever to have published a volume of poetry in this century," as well as "the first Black woman in American literary history to be so honored in a prestigious national competition," noted Richard K. Barksdale in Black American Poets between Worlds, 1940-1960. Walker's first novel, Jubilee, is . . .
Poems by Margaret Walker
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SUBJECT Relationships, Family & Ancestors, Activities, Jobs & Working, Social Commentaries, History & Politics
POET’S REGION U.S., Southern
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