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The exact date or even birthplace of Cullen is known, which is due to the fact that his mother had possibly abandoned him or died.
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Theodore Roosevelt wins his first election for President after serving three years in the office due to the death of William McKinley.
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Woodrow Wilson overcomes a three way race for presidency.
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United States Congress declares war on Germany and joins the allies in World War I.
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Mrs. Porter was the guardian of Cullen after his parents died and is perhaps his paternal grandmother
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After the death of Mrs. Porter, Cullen is adopted by Reverend and Mrs Frederick A. Cullen.
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He graduated with honors in Latin, Greek, Mathematics, and French.
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While in NYU, Cullen wins the Witter Bynner undergraduate poetry contest, his poems would later be featured in some publications such as Harper's, Crisis, Opportunity, The Bookman, and Poetry.
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Cullen graduated from NYU as one of eleven students selected to Phi Beta Kappa and continues his education in Harvard in hopes to acquire a masters in English.
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The book included "Heritage" and "Incident", probably his most famous poems. "Yet Do I Marvel".
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Daughter of W. E. B. Du Bois, the leading black intellectual.
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Postwar prosperity ends in the 1929 Stock Market crash, stock prices led to losses between 1929 and 1931 of an estimated $50 billion and started the worst American depression in the nation's history.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats President Hoover in the presidential election for the first of his four terms.
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He taught English, French, and creative writing at Frederick Douglass Junior High School in New York City.
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He worked with Arna Bontemps to adapt Bontemps's 1931 novel God Sends Sunday into St. Louis Woman
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On December 11, 1941, the United States declares war on Germany and Italy, responding to their declaration of war against America.
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Three days later, the second bomb is dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. On August 15, Emperor Hirohito of Japan surrenders.
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Cullen died from high blood pressure and uremic poisoning on January 9, 1946.
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