... Jean Toomer, Zora Neal Hurston, Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Maya Angelou and the list goes on to include newer African American authors and scholars such as Cornell West, Toni Morrison and Nikki Giovanni. All of these novelists, playwrights and poets have created a historical journey in their literature with all the trials, tribulations, discriminations, murders, accomplishments and pride of African ... of a Pulitzer in 1986), Virginia Hamilton, an African American writer of children's books (winner of the Newbery Medal in 1975), Toni Morrison, an African American n...

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