Bettiola Heloise Fortson was a pioneer poet, essayist, activist and suffragist. Fortson is recognized as one the first African-Americans in the Midwestern United States to write and publish a book. Fortson was born on December 29, 1890, in Hopkinsville, Kentucky to Mattie Arnold and James Fortson. At age 12, she moved to Chicago to live […]
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