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Melvin B. Tolson Fast Facts
Birthday
*** ,1898
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Death day
August 29, 1966 (68 years old)
Zodiac Sign
Aquarius
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Celebrities born on February 6
Born in 1898
Aquarius named Melvin
Poets from Missouri
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First name Melvin
Melvin B. Tolson
Melvin Beaunorus Tolson is an American poet, educator, columnist and politician. As a poet, he was influenced by modernism and the language and experience of African Americans, and he was deeply influenced by his research into the Harlem Renaissance. As a debate coach at historic Black Wiley University in Marshall, Texas, Tolson led a group that pioneered inter-racial debates against white colleges in the region. Separate male. This work was featured in the 2007 biopic The Great Debaters, produced by Oprah Winfrey with Denzel Washington as Tolson.

About Melvin B. Tolson

Poet Melvin B. Tolson was born on February 6, 1898 in Missouri, United States (He dies at the age of 68, on August 29, 1966).

Libretto for the Republic of Liberia and Dark Symphony are two of his works as a modernist poet, author, and educator. In 1979, a posthumous collection of his poems, A Gallery of Harlem Portraits, was published.

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Melvin B. Tolson before becoming famous

Melvin B. Tolson was born in the Zodiac sign Aquarius (The Water-Bearer), and 1898 is also the year of Dog (狗) in the Chinese Zodiac.

He was one of four children born to a Methodist minister who was African-American. He went to Lincoln University in Pennsylvania to study.

Achievement of Melvin B. Tolson

His master's thesis at Columbia University focused on notable Harlem Renaissance writers.

Melvin B. Tolson's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

He married Ruth Southall and they had four children together.

Melvin B. Tolson Collabed with

Movie Actor Denzel Washington portrayed him in the 2007 film The Great Debaters.

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Melvin B. Tolson Income & Net worth

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