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The International Day of the African Child has been celebrated on June 16 every year since 1991, when it was first initiated by the Organisation of African Unity. It honors those who participated in the Soweto Uprising in 1976 on that day. It also raises awareness of the continuing need for improvement of the education provided to African children. In Soweto, South Africa, on June 16, 1976, about ten thousand black school children marched in a column more than half a mile long, protesting…

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Happy Birthday Margaret Walker. Born in 1915, Margaret Walker was a poet, writer and the first African American woman to receive the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. She was part of the African American literary movement in Chicago, known as the Chicago Black Renaissance. Walker was best known for her Civil War novel “Jubilee” (1963) and her powerful collection of poetry, “For My People” (1942). #MargaretWalker #poet #dreamer #reader #writer #Levenger Epq Ideas, Quick Books, Black Poetry, Poetry Projects, Female Poets, Black Writers, Isaac Asimov, American Poets, My People

Happy Birthday Margaret Walker. Born in 1915, Margaret Walker was a poet, writer and the first African American woman to receive the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. She was part of the African American literary movement in Chicago, known as the Chicago Black Renaissance. Walker was best known for her Civil War novel “Jubilee” (1963) and her powerful collection of poetry, “For My People” (1942). #MargaretWalker #poet #dreamer #reader #writer #Levenger

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