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  2. Treble Clef and Book Lovers' Club - Wikipedia

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    The club predates nearly all of the cultural organizations in the country and is the oldest for African American women in Virginia. It is also one of the oldest book clubs of African American women in the United States. The club's founding members were Mrs. Annie Hughes, Mrs. Ellen Russell, Mrs. Emma Roper, Mrs. Blanche Burke, and Mrs. Lucille ...

  3. AALBC.com - Wikipedia

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    AALBC.com, the African American Literature Book Club, is a website dedicated to books and film by and about African Americans and people of African descent, with content also aimed at African-American bookstores. [1] [2] AALBC.com publishes book and film reviews, author profiles, resources for writers and related articles. Launched in 1998 ...

  4. Aurora Reading Club of Pittsburgh - Wikipedia

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    The Aurora Reading Club of Pittsburgh was established in 1894 by six local women, and is one of America's oldest African American arts and cultural organizations. [1] Its initial purpose was to pursue “a systematic course of study in a manner to be decided by a majority of the membership and shall be for the mutual improvement of the membership in literature, art, science and matters ...

  5. African-American literature - Wikipedia

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    African American literature has both been influenced by the great African diasporic heritage [7] and shaped it in many countries. It has been created within the larger realm of post-colonial literature, although scholars distinguish between the two, saying that "African American literature differs from most post-colonial literature in that it is written by members of a minority community who ...

  6. Joanna Banks - Wikipedia

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    Joanna Banks is an American book collector. [1] In 2018 Banks donated her collection of African American literature to Penn Libraries.The collection comprises over 10,000 books by African American authors, primarily published from the 1970s onwards, with particular strengths in women's writing, children's literature, cookery books, and African American periodicals.

  7. Beverly Jenkins - Wikipedia

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    Beverly Jenkins (born 1951, Detroit) is an American author of historical and contemporary romance novels with a particular focus on 19th-century African American life. [1] Jenkins was a 2013 NAACP Image Award nominee and, in 1999, was voted one of the Top 50 Favorite African American writers of the 20th century by the African American ...

  8. Themes in Maya Angelou's autobiographies - Wikipedia

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    The theme of family and family relationships—from the character-defining experience of Angelou's parents' abandonment in Caged Bird to her relationships with her son, husbands, friends, and lovers—are important in all of her books. As in American autobiography generally and in African-American autobiography specifically, which has its roots ...

  9. Black lesbian literature in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Black lesbian literature emerged from the Black Feminist movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Dissatisfied with the inability of both the feminist movement of the 1960s and the Civil Rights Movement to address the specific forms of oppression experienced by black women, [1] these writers produced critical essays and fictional works which gave voice to their experiences, using Black ...

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