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Anne Spencer

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Gender Female
Death49 years ago
Date of birth February 6,1882
Zodiac sign Aquarius
Born Henry County
Virginia
United States
Date of died July 27,1975
DiedLynchburg
Virginia
United States
SpouseCharles Edward Spencer
Place of burialLynchburg, Virginia, United States
Job Poet
Education Virginia Theological Seminary
Virginia University-Lynchburg
BooksTime's Unfading Garden: Anne Spencer's Life and Poetry
Anne Spencer Revisited: A Companion to the Film by Keith Lee : Poems
GenresPoetry
Literari movementHarlem Renaissance
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Anne Spencer Life story


Anne Bethel Spencer was an American poet, teacher, civil rights activist, librarian, and gardener. While a librarian at the all-black Dunbar High School, a position she held for 20 years, she supplemented the original three books by bringing others from her own collection at home.

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