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
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on July 23, 2013
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