1928–2014
Biography · Literature
Walter Everette Hawkins
Born 1883
United States
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Walter Everette Hawkins (November 17, 1883 – unknown) was a poet, mail clerk, and freethinker, described as being 'an important figure in the transition of black literature from the genteel modes of the nineteenth century to the flowering of black militancy often identified with the Harlem Renaissance'.
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