Project Tag: Literature

Charlotte Forten Grimke

Photo by C.M. (Charles Milton) Bell (ca. 1849-1893), taken in 1893 in Washington D.C. From the New York Public Library digital collections. African American, Ethnography, Literature, Activism Charlotte Forten Grimke (1837-1914) Charlotte Louise Forten was born free and raised in the prominent Forten-Purvis abolitionist family in Philadelphia’s elite African American community. Due to segregation, she …

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Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (Bamewawagezhikaquay)

Jane Johnston Schoolcraft or Bamewawagezhikaquay, photographer unknown, photograph from 1860, Bentley Historical Library University of Michigan, Johnson Family Papers. Native American (Anishinaabe), Ethnography, Literature Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (Bamewawagezhikaquay) (1800-1842) Jane Johnston Schoolcraft was the first published Indigenous poet from the United States, the first known poet to write in a Native American language, and the …

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