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Eloise Greenfield (1929–2021), children's book author; Sam Greenlee (1930–2014), novelist, poet, best known as author of The Spook Who Sat by the Door; Bonnie Greer (born 1948), novelist, playwright, critic; Deborah Gregory, author of The Cheetah Girls book series; Dick Gregory (1932–2017) Sutton E. Griggs (1872–1933)
An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex. In Which Are Inserted the Characters of a Pedant, a Squire, a Beau, a Vertuoso, a Poetaster, a City-Critick, &c. In a Letter to a Lady. Written by a Lady, Judith Drake (1697) [15] A Serious Proposal, Part II, Mary Astell (1697) The Adventure of the Black Lady, Aphra Behn (1697) [16]
Lady Anne Barnard (1750–1825) Lesley Beake (born 1949) Mark Behr (born 1963), South Africa/Tanzania; Dricky Beukes (1918–1999) Lauren Beukes (born 1976) Steve Biko (1946–1977) Troy Blacklaws (born 1965) François Bloemhof (born 1962) Elleke Boehmer (born 1961) Dugmore Boetie (c.1924–1966) Stella Blakemore (1906–1991) William Bolitho ...
Abby Fisher, sometimes spelled as Abbie Fisher (c. 1831 – 1915) was an American former slave from South Carolina who earned her living as a pickle manufacturer in San Francisco and published the second known cookbook by a Black woman in the United States, after Malinda Russell's Domestic Cook Book: Containing a Careful Selection of Useful Receipts for the Kitchen (1866).
The list features the most popular novels of each year from 1970 through 1975. [1] The standards set for inclusion in the lists – which, for example, led to the exclusion of the novels in the Harry Potter series from the lists for the 1990s and 2000s – are currently unknown.
This book contains Smith's memories of being a child being raised in the segregated south and the issues that come with this normalized idea along with the issues of how the South teaches sin. Smith also tackles how this affects children and adults alike, black and whites alike. Two of Smith's lesser known works are Now is the Time and The ...
Whether you are inspired by old-fashioned names or simply want to revive a vintage name, here are more than 100 old lady names to consider for your daughter.
And another Southern-born ex-slave, William Wells Brown, wrote Clotel; or, The President's Daughter—widely believed to be the first novel ever published by an African-American. The book depicts the life of its title character, a daughter of Thomas Jefferson and his black mistress, and her struggles under slavery.