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Margaret Walker: One Of The Best African-American Poet

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Margaret Walker was known as one of the best African American poet from her time. Walker was born on July 7th, 1951 in Birmingham, Alabama. Ever since the young age of twelve, she grew a love for reading and writing poetry when her father gifted her with a book of poems by Langston Hughes and a journal to keep her poems. She commonly wrote poems of the themes of "nature, race, and religion." After she graduated from Northwest University, Walker joined the Federal Writers' Project in Chicago, Illinois. She wrote several poems, a famous one being "For My People," before teaching at Jackson State College during the 1940s. During her time as a teacher, she published her book Jubilee along with other books and volumes of poetry, before retiring
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