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- <text id=89TT0281>
- <title>
- Jan. 30, 1989: Died:Sterling Allen Brown
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Jan. 30, 1989 The Bush Era Begins
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 59
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- <p> DIED. Sterling Allen Brown, 87, poet, scholar and authority
- on black-American literature; in Takoma Park, Md. A professor of
- English at Howard University from 1929 to 1969, he won the
- Lenore Marshall poetry prize and was named the District of
- Columbia's poet laureate in 1984. "Done took my livin' as it
- came," wrote Brown, who composed much of his poetry in black
- dialect. "Done grabbed my joy, done risked my life."
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- </body></article>
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