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Margaret
Walker Alexander
Margeret Alexander
was born in Birmingham, Alabama. She became a Professor of Jackson State
University in the 1960's. She wrote and published Jubilee
in 1966.
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Nevada
Barr
She was born
in Nevada and now lives
in Clinton,
Mississippi. She was once emplyed by the National Park Service as
a ranger and worked along the Natchez Trace Parkway in Mississippi. She
is most known for her
series of
mystery novels.
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Beth
Henley
She is a famous
Pulitzer Prize winning
Mississippi
Playwright born in Jackson, MS.
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Eudora
Welty
She was born April
13, 1909. Welty is a life-long resident of Jackson, Mississippi.
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Oprah
Winfrey
Born in Kosciusko,Mississippi
on January 29,1954. Oprah Winfrey has been called "The Nation's Best
Girlfriend" Her long-running talk show draws many viewers daily.
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Faith
Hill
Faith was born
Audrey Faith Perry Hill on September 21, 1967 in Jackson. Her hometown
is Star, Mississippi. She is one of the country's leading Country Music
singers today.
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Ethel Wright
Mohamed
Famous for
her art stitchery portraying
Mississippi
images; many of her works are on permanent display in the Smithsonian Institution
Leontyne
Price
Operatic soprano,
first black to achieve stardom in opera, winner of fifteen Grammy awards!
Leontyne is a famous opera singer from
Laurel, Mississippi.
She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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LeAnn
Rimes
Born in Pearl,
Mississippi, LeAnne
Rimes has
qucikly become one of the most popular country music singers of our time
(and the youngest)
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