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Correspondence, 1918-1939. Correspondence, 1923 Apr. 12. (Box 1, Folder 47)

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Born in 1903, Countee Cullen was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Primarily known as a poet, he also wrote children's books, plays, and a novel. Born Countee Porter, he was adopted by Rev. Frederick Cullen, a Methodist minister, and attended DeWitt Clinton High School in New York City. Cullen received degrees from New York University and Harvard. He married Yolande DuBois, daughter of W.E.B. DuBois, in 1928, but they divorced in 1930, he the married Ida Mae Roberson in 1940. This folder contains correspondence from Countee Cullen to his childhood friend William F. Brown, Jr., as well as miscellaneous items relating to Cullen's writing. William Fuller Brown, Jr. was born in Lyon Mountain, N.Y. in 1904 and received degrees from Cornell and Columbia Universities. He was a research physicist at several firms including Sun Oil Co. and 3M. He later served as an electrical engineering professor at the University of Minnesota from 1957-1973. He died in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1983.
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  1. African American Authors
  2. African Americans
  3. American Letters
  4. Brown, William Fuller, 1904 1983
  5. Correspondence
  6. Cullen, Countee, 1903 1946
  7. Harlem Renaissance

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