William Pickens

Journalist, Author

1881 – 1954

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Who was William Pickens?

William Pickens was an African-American orator, educator, journalist, and essayist. He wrote two autobiographies, first The Heir of Slaves, in 1911 and second Bursting Bonds in 1923, in which he mentioned race- motivated attacks on African Americans. both in the urban riots of 1919 and by lynching in 1921.

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Born
Jan 15, 1881
Anderson County
Ethnicity
  • African American
Profession
Education
  • Talladega College
  • Yale University
Died
Apr 6, 1954

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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