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57 relations: African Americans, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Cancer, Charlottesville, Virginia, Columbia University, Communication studies, Dallas, Debate, Denzel Washington, Dust Bowl, Edgar Lee Masters, English language, Epic poetry, European Americans, Fisk University, Greek alphabet, Greek language, Guthrie, Oklahoma, Harlem Renaissance, Hebrew language, Historically black colleges and universities, Iowa, James Farmer, Kansas City metropolitan area, Karl Shapiro, Langston Hughes, Langston University, Langston, Oklahoma, Latin, Liberia, Library of Congress, Lincoln University (Pennsylvania), List of poets from the United States, List of teachers portrayed in films, Marshall, Texas, Master's degree, Mayor, Methodism, Middlebury College, Moberly, Missouri, Muscogee, Nathan Hare, New York City, Omega Psi Phi, Oprah Winfrey, Poet laureate, Southern United States, Southern University, Sweatt v. Painter, The Atlantic, ..., The Great Debaters, Tuskegee University, United States, University of Oklahoma, University of Southern California, University of Virginia, Wiley College. Expand index (7 more) »
African Americans
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.
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Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
The Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers' Conference is a writers' conference held every summer at the Bread Loaf Inn, near Bread Loaf Mountain, east of Middlebury, Vermont.
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Cancer
Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body.
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Charlottesville, Virginia
Charlottesville, colloquially known as C'ville and officially named the City of Charlottesville, is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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Columbia University
Columbia University (Columbia; officially Columbia University in the City of New York), established in 1754, is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City.
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Communication studies
Communication studies or communication sciences is an academic discipline that deals with processes of human communication.
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Dallas
Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.
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Debate
Debate is a process that involves formal discussion on a particular topic.
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Denzel Washington
Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is an American actor, director, and producer.
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Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion (the Aeolian processes) caused the phenomenon.
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Edgar Lee Masters
Edgar Lee Masters (August 23, 1868 – March 5, 1950) was an American attorney, poet, biographer, and dramatist.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.
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Epic poetry
An epic poem, epic, epos, or epopee is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily involving a time beyond living memory in which occurred the extraordinary doings of the extraordinary men and women who, in dealings with the gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the moral universe that their descendants, the poet and his audience, must understand to understand themselves as a people or nation.
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European Americans
European Americans (also referred to as Euro-Americans) are Americans of European ancestry.
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Fisk University
Fisk University is a private historically black university in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Greek alphabet
The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC.
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Greek language
Greek (Modern Greek: ελληνικά, elliniká, "Greek", ελληνική γλώσσα, ellinikí glóssa, "Greek language") is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece and other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea.
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Guthrie, Oklahoma
Guthrie is a city and county seat in Logan County, Oklahoma, United States, and a part of the Oklahoma City Metroplex.
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Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s.
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Hebrew language
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Historically black colleges and universities
Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the intention of primarily serving the African-American community.
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Iowa
Iowa is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri and Big Sioux rivers to the west.
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James Farmer
James Leonard Farmer Jr. (January 12, 1920 – July 9, 1999) was a civil rights activist and leader in the Civil Rights Movement "who pushed for nonviolent protest to dismantle segregation, and served alongside Martin Luther King Jr." He was the initiator and organizer of the 1961 Freedom Ride, which eventually led to the desegregation of interstate transportation in the United States.
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Kansas City metropolitan area
The Kansas City metropolitan area is a 15-county metropolitan area anchored by Kansas City, Missouri, that straddles the border between the U.S. states of Missouri and Kansas.
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Karl Shapiro
Karl Jay Shapiro (November 10, 1913 – May 14, 2000) was an American poet.
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Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri.
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Langston University
Langston University, abbreviated as LU, is a public university in Langston, Oklahoma, United States.
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Langston, Oklahoma
Langston is a town in Logan County, Oklahoma, United States, and is part of the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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Latin
Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Liberia
Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast.
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Library of Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.
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Lincoln University (Pennsylvania)
Lincoln University (LU) is the United States' first degree-granting historically black university.
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List of poets from the United States
The poets listed below were either born in the United States or else published much of their poetry while living in that country.
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List of teachers portrayed in films
The following real-life inspirational/motivational instructors/mentors have been portrayed in popular films.
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Marshall, Texas
Marshall is a city in and the county seat of Harrison County in northeastern Texas in the United States.
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Master's degree
A master's degree (from Latin magister) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.
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Mayor
In many countries, a mayor (from the Latin maior, meaning "bigger") is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town.
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Methodism
Methodism or the Methodist movement is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity which derive their inspiration from the life and teachings of John Wesley, an Anglican minister in England.
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Middlebury College
Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college located in Middlebury, Vermont, United States.
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Moberly, Missouri
Moberly is a city in Randolph County, Missouri, United States.
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Muscogee
The Muscogee, also known as the Mvskoke, Creek and the Muscogee Creek Confederacy, are a related group of Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands.
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Nathan Hare
Nathan Hare (born April 9, 1933) is an American sociologist, activist, academic, and psychologist.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Omega Psi Phi
Omega Psi Phi (ΩΨΦ) is an international fraternity with over 750 undergraduate and graduate chapters.
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Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey (born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist.
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Poet laureate
A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems for special events and occasions.
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Southern United States
The Southern United States, also known as the American South, Dixie, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a region of the United States of America.
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Southern University
Southern University and A&M College (often referred to as Southern University, Southern, SUBR or SU) is a public historically black university (HBCU) in the Scotlandville area of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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Sweatt v. Painter
Sweatt v. Painter, 339 U.S. 629 (1950), was a U.S. Supreme Court case that successfully challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation established by the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson.
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The Atlantic
The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher, founded in 1857 as The Atlantic Monthly in Boston, Massachusetts.
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The Great Debaters
The Great Debaters is a 2007 American biographical drama film directed by and starring Denzel Washington.
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Tuskegee University
Tuskegee University is a private, historically black university (HBCU) located in Tuskegee, Alabama, United States.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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University of Oklahoma
The University of Oklahoma (OU) is a coeducational public research university in Norman, Oklahoma.
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University of Southern California
The University of Southern California (USC or SC) is a private research university in Los Angeles, California.
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University of Virginia
The University of Virginia (U.Va. or UVA), frequently referred to simply as Virginia, is a public research university and the flagship for the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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Wiley College
Wiley College is a four-year, private, historically black, liberal arts college located on the west side of Marshall, Texas.
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