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May 25, 1966
American Academy of Arts and Letters honors black Texas poet
On this day in 1966, Melvin B. Tolson received the annual poetry award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Tolson, born in Missouri in 1898, was only fourteen when his first poem was printed
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