Margaret Walker

Margaret Walker (Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander by marriage; July 7, 1915 – November 30, 1998) was an American poet and writer. She was part of the African-American literary movement in Chicago, known as the Chicago Black Renaissance. Her notable works include For My People (1942) which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition, and the novel Jubilee (1966), set in the South during the American Civil War.

Similar Artists

Nikki Giovanni

W.E.B. DuBois

Sterling A. Brown

Sonia Sanchez

Langston Hughes

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Malcolm X

Huey P. Newton

Fannie Lou Hamer

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Stokely CarMichael

Maya Angelou

Fred Hampton

Eldridge Cleaver

Claude McKay

Amiri Baraka

Dorothy Washington