Poet Etheridge Knight

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Etheridge Knight

Living place: Mississippi

Birthday: 19-4-1931 (93 years old)

Population of US 1931: 124,039,648

Global rank: #97898

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Who is Poet Etheridge Knight?
African-American poet associated with Black Movement art and best known for his poem from prison (published in 1968). His other literary works include A Poem for Brother Man, The Idea of ​​the Ancestors, and Born of a Woman.
He was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and won both a National Endowment for the Arts Grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship between 1972 and 1974 .
 
 

Young / Before famous

He escaped poverty by working as a US Army doctor. Sadly, he later served time in prison for the robbery.

Family life info

He married Sonia Sanchez, a fellow poet; However, his problems with drugs ended this inning. He later married and had two children with Mary McNally.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Poet Etheridge Knight?
Malcolm X's autobiography inspired Knight to turn his anger over prison and injustice into a passion for poetry.

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When was Poet Etheridge Knight born?
Etheridge Knight birthday 19-4-1931 (at the age of 93).
Where is Poet Etheridge Knight's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Etheridge Knight was born in Mississippi, . is a Poet, whose Zodiac is Aries, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Goat. Etheridge Knight's global rank is 97898 and whose rank is 1176 in list of famous Poet. Population of US in 1931 is about 124,039,648 persons.
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Events in 1931 and 19-4

Events in US in the birth year of Etheridge Knight

  • Gangster Al Capone sentenced to 11 years in prison for tax evasion (freed in 1939; dies in 1947).
  • Scottsboro trial begins, exposing depth of Southern racism.
  • “The Star Spangled Banner” officially becomes national anthem. Background: Francis Scott Key

Birthday Etheridge Knight (19-4) in history

  • Day 19-4 year 1775: They were the beginning of the American Revolution. "The shot heard around the world" was fired. Colonial Minutemen joined the regular forces of the British Army at Lexington and Concord, Mass.
  • Day 19-4 year 1824: Lord Byron passed away of a fever while helping the Greeks fight the Turks.
  • Day 19-4 year 1882: Naturalist Charles Darwin, developer of the theory of evolution, died.
  • Day 19-4 year 1897: The first Boston Marathon was run.
  • Day 19-4 year 1933: The United States went off the gold standard.
  • Day 19-4 year 1943: The Warsaw ghetto uprising began, one of the first mass rebellions against the Nazis.
  • Day 19-4 year 1993: The siege at Waco, Texas, ended when FBI moved into the Branch Davidian compound with tear gas and cult members set fire to the compound killing over 80 people.
  • Day 19-4 year 1995: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Okla., was destroyed by a car bomb. 168 people, including 19 children were killed in the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history up to that time.
  • Day 19-4 year 2005: Germany's Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI.
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