Fields, Julia (1938–)
Fields, Julia (1938–)
African-American poet. Born 1938 in Bessemer, Alabama.
Taught high school in Alabama and poetry and writing at Hampton Institute, East Carolina University, Howard University, and North Carolina State University; inspired by Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and black activists of 1960s, published poetry collections Poems (1968), All Day Tomorrow (1966), Slow Coins (1981), and The Green Lion of Zion Street (1988).
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