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He was born on January 7, 1891, in Notasulga, Alabama. He moved to Eatonville, Florida, where his father was one of the first mayors. He studied at Morgan College and Howard University, co-founding The Hilltop newspaper.
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She began publishing short stories in 1920. Her most notable works include "Mules and Men" and "Their Eyes Were Watching God," which challenge the literary norms of her time by focusing on the lives of Black women.
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In 1925, he received a scholarship to Barnard College and graduated with a degree in anthropology.
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She was born on February 18, 1931, in Lorain, Ohio
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Toni Morrison won the Nobel Prize in Literature
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She experienced racial discrimination from a young age but excelled in her studies and school activities. At the age of 12, she was baptized as Toni, in honor of Saint Anthony of Padua.
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Alice Walker is a prominent American writer, activist, and feminist, born on February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia.
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Walker grew up in a farming family and was the youngest of eight children
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She taught English at Texas Southern University and later at Howard University, where she taught figures like Stokely Carmichael
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Despite her talent, she faced financial difficulties and lived in poverty. She died on January 28, 1960, and was initially buried in an unmarked grave.
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In 1972, Alice Walker located her grave and placed a marker there. Today, Hurston is considered one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, with a legacy that continues to influence contemporary writers.
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She is best known for her novel "The Color Purple," published in 1982, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983 and has become a classic of American literature.
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The work addresses themes of racism, sexism, and the search for identity through the life of an African-American woman in the American South.
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In 1996, she was awarded the National Book Foundation’s Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
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She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama in 2012.
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In 2019, a documentary about her life, Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am, was released. Morrison passed away in August 2019 due to complications from pneumonia.