Nikki Giovanni

By bhopb

  • Nikki giovanni was born in Knoxville, Tenessee

  • In august of the same year they move to Cincinnati, Ohio.

  • In 1944 his sister for some reason he start calling it “Nikki”

  • In 1947 the family leaves Glenview, and go to Woodlawn

  • 1948 the family moves to Wyoming another suburb of Cincinatti

  • 1952 his dad buy a house in Lincoln heights

  • Her seventh grade teacher, Sister Althea Augustine, is an important influence on her

  • Nikki invites her grand parents oncee they are there she tell them that he want to go with them

  • Her sister Gary has a son, Christopher

  • She moves with her grandparents. Her grandmother is a great influence over nikki, he teach Nikki to help others

  • Giovanni goes to Nashville to enroll in Fisk University.

  • Nikki has two influential teachers: her French teacher, Mrs. Emma Stokes, and her English teacher, Miss Alfredda Delaney.

  • She is expelled from Fisk

  • She takes a job at Walgreens, She also takes courses at the University of Cincinnati and does volunteer work

  • Her parents move into another, better house in Lincoln Heights

  • her grandfather, John Brown Watson, dies

  • Giovanni travels to Fisk to explore the possibility of re-enrolling

  • She returns to the fisk.

  • She meets Dudley Randall

  • Grandmother Louvenia Watson dies

  • Borrows money to publish her first volume of poetry, Black Feeling Black Talk.

  • Publish her second volume of poetry, Black Judgement; Broadside Press offers to distribute it.

  • The New York Times features her in an article entitled "Renaissance in Black Poetry Expresses Anger.” and more newspaper do this

  • Writes and publishes the broadside, "Poem of Angela Yvonne Davis.

  • begins making regular appearances on his television program, Soul!

  • Ebony magazine named her woman of the year

  • Publishes autobiography, Gemini, and poems for children, Spin A Soft Black Song

  • Truth is a phenomenal success, selling more than 100,000 copies in its first six months

  • Publishes My House. Joins National Council of Negro Women. Receives an honorary doctorate from Wilberforce University

  • Truth Is On Its Way receives N.A.T.R.A.’s award for best spoken word Album

  • PublishesTripping Ego and Other Poems for Young Readers and A Dialogue: James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni

  • Releases the album Like A Ripple On A Pond

  • Travels to Rome for the United Nations’ First World Food Conference

  • Father has stroke and is subsequently diagnosed with cancer.

  • Father dies

  • Named Woman of the Year by the Cincinnati YWCA

  • Is named to the Ohio Women’s Hall of Fame

  • Receives honorary doctorates from Mount Saint Joseph’s College

  • Outstanding Woman of Tennessee and Receives the Cincinnati Post’s Post-Corbett Award

  • Recieves honorary doctorates from Mount Saint Mary College

  • Publishes Sacred Cows . . . And Other Edibles. Receives honorary doctorate from Fisk University.

  • Receives honorary doctorate from Indiana University

  • The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection Collection is a finalist for a Grammy Award in the category of Spoken Word

  • In mid-January is diagnosed with lung cancer.

  • Receives the Langston Hughes Award

  • Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni nominated for NAACP Image Award

  • Wins NAACP Image Award for Love Poems

  • Recognized as Virginia Tech Scholar of the Week,

  • Honored at the Althea Gibson 50th Anniversary celebration by the US Tennis Association.