... and educator. 5. Oliver Wendell Holmes- Initially known in the Boston area for his cultured, witty verse, the American physician and writer gained wider popularity with the publication of his essays in 1858. His son, also named Oliver Wendell Holmes, became an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1902. B. Emily Dickinson- Heralded as one of ... She wrote several plays for the experimental theater group the Provincetown Players, notably Aria da Capo (1919), a satirical fantasy on war. E. Langston Hughes (1902-1967) - American writer, known for the use of jazz an...

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... , inwardly the remnants that defined him as an African American and become that ideal just "American" that Theodore Roosevelt shouts about in his manifesto. On the other hand, he received heavy criticism his fellow race, including W. E. B. Du Bois, who claimed he "had not spoken out strongly enough ... to write what it meant to be both black and American in the United States in The Souls of Black Folk. Within these published essays, Du Bois goes on to describe the disjointed identity of being "a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second sight yield[ing ... on anyone ...

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