Ghansah, Rachel Kaadzi. “The Radical Vision of Toni Morrison”. New York Times Magazine, 8 Apr. 2015.
Howard University
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Education | Toni Morrison | TM
did well at Lorain High School (where black and white children studied together). |
Education | Mary Ann Shadd Cary | MASC
began studying law at Howard University
in Washington, DC (a university for black students founded just two and a half years earlier). American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html. Bearden, Jim, and Linda Jean Butler. Shadd: The Life and Times of Mary Shadd Cary. NC Press, 1977. 211, 213 “Brief History of Howard Univesity”. Howard University. |
Education | Zora Neale Hurston | ZNH
studied under poet Georgia Douglas Johnson
and philosopher Alain Locke
at Howard University. Harris, Trudier, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 51. Gale Research, 1987. 51: 134 |
Education | Toni Morrison | Chloe Wofford (later TM
) graduated with her BA from Howard University
. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
Employer | Toni Morrison | After her MA she embarked on an academic career, teaching English literature and creative writing. She worked at Texas Southern University
from 1955 to 1957, then from 1957 to 1964 at her own alma mater,... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Toni Morrison | Chloe Wofford (later TM
) married a Jamaican architect named Harold Morrison
, whom she had met at Howard University
. They divorced in 1965. Samuels, Wilfred D., and Clenora Hudson-Weems. Toni Morrison. Twayne, 1990. xiii Innes, Lyn. “Toni Morrison Obituary”. theguardian.com, 6 Aug. 2019. |
Friends, Associates | Mary Carpenter | In BostonMC
met Julia Ward Howe
and Lucretia Mott
. At Howard College
she was introduced by Frederick Douglass
, an old friend. Carpenter, J. Estlin. The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter. 2nd ed., MacMillan and Co., 1881. 330-1, 323 |
Publishing | Zora Neale Hurston | ZNH
's first published work, the short story John Redding Goes to Sea, was issued in Stylus, Howard University
's literary magazine. Harris, Trudier, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 51. Gale Research, 1987. 51: 134 |
Reception | Mary Ann Shadd Cary | By the end of the twentieth century, there was a resurgence of interest in MASC
. Scholar Richard Almonte
observed that the appearance in 1977 of Jim Bearden
and Linda Jean Butler
's biography Shadd... |
Reception | Zora Neale Hurston | ZNH
received Howard University
's Distinguished Alumni Award. Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications, 1999–2002, 17 vols. 7: 591 |
Textual Production | Zora Neale Hurston | The book was edited by Deborah G. Plant
and included a foreword by Alice Walker
. In Britain it was titled Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave. Kossula, then aged nineteen, lived through... |
Timeline
2 March 1867: President Andrew Johnson approved an Act...
Building item
2 March 1867
President Andrew Johnson
approved an Act of the US Congress
chartering Howard University
in Washington, DC, as an institution for African-Americans in the liberal arts and sciences.
“Brief History of Howard Univesity”. Howard University.
1925: Alain Locke wrote: Harlem has the same role...
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1925
Alain Locke
wrote: Harlem has the same role to play for the New Negro that Dublin has had for the New Ireland or Prague for the New Czechoslovakia.
Nkosi, Lewis. “An UnAmerican in New York”. London Review of Books, 24 Aug. 2000, pp. 30-2.
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