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Bessie Woodson Yancey

American poet and teacher
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Gender Female
Death66 years ago
Date of birth January 1,1882
Born Buckingham County
Virginia
United States
DiedWest Virginia
United States
Date of died January 11,1958
Parents Anne Eliza Riddle Woodson
BooksEchoes from the Hills: A Book of Poems
Siblings Carter G. Woodson
Robert Henry
Notabl workEchoes from the Hills
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Bessie Woodson Yancey Life story

Bessie Woodson Yancey was an African American poet, teacher, and activist, whose only published poetry collection, 1939's Echoes from the Hills, was "perhaps the earliest example of Affrilachian children's literature."

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