Walter Everette Hawkins

Walter Everette Hawkins
Born17 November 1883
Warrenton, North Carolina
DiedUnknown
Alma materKittrell College
Occupation(s)Poet, mail clerk

Walter Everette Hawkins (17 November 1883 – unknown)[1] was a poet,[2] mail clerk,[3] and freethinker,[4] described as being 'an important figure in the transition of black literature from the genteel modes of the nineteenth century to the flowering of black militancy often identified with the Harlem Renaissance'.[1]

  1. ^ a b Harris, Trudier; Davis, Thadious M. (1986). Afro-American writers before the Harlem renaissance. Internet Archive. Detroit, Mich. : Gale. ISBN 978-0-8103-1728-4.
  2. ^ Poets, Academy of American. "About Walter Everette Hawkins | Academy of American Poets". poets.org. Retrieved 2022-02-02.
  3. ^ King, Anita (1981). Quotations in black. Internet Archive. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-22128-6.
  4. ^ Kerlin, Robert Thomas (1923). Negro poets and their poems. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Washington, D. C., Associated publishers, inc.