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    Phillis Wheatley Peters is broadly recognized as the first African American woman and only the third American woman to publish a book of poems. Her works continues to be studied by historians, and her legacy has inspired generations of writers. Born around 1753 in Gambia, Africa, Wheatley was captured by enslavers and brought to America in 1761.
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    Mary Musgrove become a negotiator between English and Native American communities and played an important role in the development of Colonial Georgia. ... Phillis Wheatley was the first African American woman to publish a book of poems. ... Among the most famous women in early American history, Pocahontas is credited with helping the struggling ...
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    Zora Hurston was a world-renowned writer and anthropologist. Hurston's novels, short stories, and plays often depicted African American life in the South. Her work in anthropology examined Black folklore. Hurston influenced many writers, forever cementing her place in history as one of the foremost female writers of the 20th century.
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    Ida B. Wells-Barnett was a prominent journalist, activist, and researcher, in the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries. In her lifetime, she battled sexism, racism, and violence. As a skilled writer, Wells-Barnett also used her skills as a journalist to shed light on the conditions of African Americans throughout the South and dispelled the myth that lynching, which she famously referred to as ...
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    Due to her work, Virginia's governor declared March 30, 2019 "Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler Day." Her Beacon Hill home is now a stop on the Boston Women's Heritage Trail and one of the first medical communities for African American women is named the Rebecca Lee Society. Today, only 2% of practicing physicians identify as African American women.
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    Phillis Wheatley. African American women were central to early nineteenth century abolitionism. During the 1820s and 1830s, these women established social and literary organizations, as well as religious groups to challenge slavery and support their communities.
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    As a poet, author, and lecturer, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was a household name in the nineteenth century. Not only was she the first African American woman to publish a short story, but she was also an influential abolitionist, suffragist, and reformer that co-founded the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs.
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    I can write my own stories and I can write myself in." Butler's writing became an early pillar of the subgenre of Afrofuturism, which UCLA defines, "as a wide-ranging social, political and artistic movement that dares to imagine a world where African-descended peoples and their cultures play a central role in the creation of that world".
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    Michelle Duster is author, public historian, educator, and champion of racial and gender equity who believes it is essential that the contributions women and African Americans made to the United States be told in a more complete and accurate way. The first 20 years of her career were in advertising, marketing, and program coordination. In the last dozen years Michelle has written several dozen ...

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