Did You Know these African-American First in Literature?

Novelist: Harriet Wilson, Our Nig (1859)..

















Poet: Lucy Terry, 1746, "Bar's Fight." It is her only surviving poem.











Poet (published):
Phillis Wheatley, 1773, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. Considered the founder of African-American literature.













Pulitzer Prize winner: Gwendolyn Brooks, 1950, won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry.





















Pulitzer Prize winner in Drama: Charles Gordone, 1970, for his play No Place To Be Somebody.












Nobel Prize for Literature winner:
Toni Morrison, 1993.





















Poet Laureate: Robert Hayden, 1976–1978;



The first black woman Poet Laureate:
Rita Dove, 1993–1995.























Did you know what a Poet Laureate is?

a poet who is unofficially regarded as holding an honorary position in a particular group or region; "she is the poet laureate of all lyricists ...
the poet officially appointed to the royal household in Great Britain; "the poet laureate is expected to provide poems for great national occasions"
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