RICHARD WRIGHT  KNOWN FOR WORKS OF SOCIAL PROTEST.  AFRICAN AMERICAN ACTIVIST.  GREW UP IN JACKSON.  *HE HAD THE FIRST BEST SELLING NOVEL BY AN.

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RICHARD WRIGHT  *KNOWN FOR WORKS OF SOCIAL PROTEST.  *AFRICAN AMERICAN ACTIVIST.  GREW UP IN JACKSON.  *HE HAD THE FIRST BEST SELLING NOVEL BY AN AFRICAN AMERICAN WRITER.

EUDORA WELTY  *WON THE PULITZER PRIZE.  BORN IN JACKSON.  *WROTE ABOUT SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ISSUES.

IDA B. WELLS  FROM HOLLY SPRINGS.  *WROTE ABOUT CIVIL RIGHTS.  *WROTE ABOUT WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE.  *VERY INVOLVED IN THE NAACP.

WILLIAM FAULKNER  LIVED IN OXFORD (WHERE OLE MISS IS LOCATED)  *WROTE ABOUT THE DECLINE OF SOUTHERN VALUES.  *WON A NOBEL PRIZE.

MUSIC  GUIDED READING PAGE 324  1. WHO ARE 2 OF THE BEST KNOWN MUSICIANS  2. WHERE WAS ROBERT JOHNSON BORN?  3. WHAT WERE SOME OF ROBERT JOHNSONS THEMES?  4. WHAT WAS JIMMY RODGERS NICKNAME?  5. HOW MANY SONGS DID JIMMY RODGERS WRITE?

FAMOUS MUSICIANS  CHARLEY PATTON (BLUES)  *B.B. KING (BLUES)  *FAITH HILL (COUNTRY)  *ELVIS (ROCK AND ROLL)  LEONTYNE PRICE

Tennessee Williams  *He is perhaps the best-known play-wright in American Literature.

 Shelby Foote: known for his fine multi- volume history of the Civil War.