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The poetry of the era was published in several different ways, notably in the form of anthologies. The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922), Negro Poets and Their Poems (1923), An Anthology of Verse by American Negroes (1924), and Caroling Dusk (1927) have been cited as four major poetry anthologies of the Harlem Renaissance. [2]
Confessional poetry was an American movement that emerged in the late 1950s and the 1960s. They drew on personal history for their artistic inspiration . Poets in this group include Sylvia Plath , Anne Sexton , John Berryman , and Robert Lowell .
July 27 – The Charleston, Arkansas, school board unanimously votes to end segregation in the school district. Ending segregation for first through twelfth grades, the Charleston school district was the first school district among the former Confederate States to desegregate. The schools opened for the new school year on August 23.
In 1990 it is added to by the eight-part Eyes on the Prize II covering the years 1965–1985. Benjamin Carson became the first person in history to separate conjoined twins that were joined at the head. [90] 1988. Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1988.
Lorraine Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) remains a prominent playwright and author within American literary history. Her play Raisin in the Sun is about an African American family aspiring to move beyond the segregation and disenfranchisement in 1950s Chicago. This work made her the first Black woman to have a play performed on ...
W. H. Auden, Collected Shorter Poems 1930-1944, published March 9; English poet living in the United States at this time [10] George Barker, The True Confession of George Barker [11] Basil Bunting, Poems: 1950 [10] Norman Cameron, Forgive Me, Sire, and Other Poems [10] Walter de la Mare, Inward Companion, published in October [10]
In it she describes how her early marriage to a white student while at Barnard College immersed her in the racial turmoil of America in the 1950s, and set her on the path of social activism. [ 31 ] In 2004, the June Jordan School for Equity (formerly known as the Small School for Equity) in San Francisco was named after her by its first ninth ...
1874 in poetry – Arthur Rimbaud's IlluminationsFirst collection of George Eliot's poetry; - Birth of Gertrude Stein, Robert Frost, important American poet; 1875 in poetry – French translation of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven", by Stéphane Mallarmé with drawings by Édouard Manet; - Birth of Rainer Maria Rilke, important pre-modernist 20th ...