Howard University

MASC began studying law at Howard University in Washington, DC (a university for black students founded just two and a half years earlier).

ZNH studied under poet Georgia Douglas Johnson and philosopher Alain Locke at Howard University.

Chloe Wofford (later TM ) graduated with her BA from Howard University .

TM did well at Lorain High School (where black and white children studied together). She was annoyed when a teacher who showed some little essay I wrote to subsequent classes, as an example of really...

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,...

Chloe Wofford (later TM ) married a Jamaican architect named Harold Morrison , whom she had met at Howard University . They divorced in 1965.

In BostonMC met Julia Ward Howe and Lucretia Mott . At Howard College she was introduced by Frederick Douglass , an old friend.

ZNH 's first published work, the short story John Redding Goes to Sea, was issued in Stylus, Howard University 's literary magazine.

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...

ZNH received Howard University 's Distinguished Alumni Award.

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...