Angela morgan poet biography template

Angela morgan poet biography template excel

1875 – January 24, 1957) was an American poet. Her given name at birth was Nina Lillian, which she later changed to Angela.

Life

Nina Lillian Morgan was born in about 1875, either in Washington, D.C., or in Yazoo County, Mississippi.

Her father was Albert T. Morgan, a Northern abolitionist who moved to Yazoo City, Mississippi after the Civil War and became a state senator. Her mother was Carrie Highgate, an "Octoroon" member of a prominent family in Syracuse, New York; her eldest sister was Edmonia Highgate.

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Their interracial marriage was considered scandalous in Reconstruction-era Mississippi by white racists.Her family lived in Washington from 1876 to 1885, and then moved to Lawrence, Kansas, and later to Topeka, Kansas. In 1890 her father left home to become a gold prospector, and until 1898 Morgan earned money singing in a voice quartet with her three sisters.

She married in 1900; the marriage was dissolved in 1906.Morgan became a