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Margaret Walker (Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander by marriage; July 7, 1915 – November 30, 1998) was an American poet and writer. She was part of the African-American literary movement in Chicago, known as the Chicago Black Renaissance.
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On October 17, 1998, Margaret Walker was inducted into the African American Literary Hall of Fame. Poet and novelist Margaret Walker was born on July 7, 1915, in Birmingham, Alabama, to the Reverend Sigismund C. Walker and Marion Dozier Walker. The….
Margaret Walker was an American novelist and poet who was one of the leading black woman writers of the mid-20th century. After graduating from Northwestern University (B.A., 1935), Walker joined the Federal Writers’ Project in Chicago, where she began a brief literary relationship with novelist.
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Margaret Walker was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1915. The first African American poet to receive the Yale Younger Poets Prize, she was the author of For My People (Yale University Press, 1942) and This Is My Century: New and Collected Poems (University of Georgia Press, 1989), among others.
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By CM Burroughs. Carl Van Vechten, © Van Vechten Trust. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. The scope of Margaret Walker ’s “For My People” is so expansive in its address to Americans that it could be a U.S. president’s inaugural poem; its emotional appeal results in an intimacy rich enough to speak to the ...
Margaret Walker was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1915. The first African American poet to receive the Yale Younger Poets Prize, she was the author of For My People (Yale University Press, 1942) and This Is My Century: New and Collected Poems (University of Georgia Press, 1989), among others.
Margaret Walker's signature poem "For My People" encompasses the strengths and struggles of Blacks not only in Chicago but throughout America. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.
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