This biography is about Toni Morrison and what she accomplished. On February 18, 1931 Toni Morrison was born. Soon as she was born her parents moved to the north to escape the problems of the southern racism. Her parents were migrants and sharecroppers, most of her childhood was spent in the Midwest. As she grew up and went to college and studied at Cornell university in; Ithaca, New York, she received her M.A. in 1955.After college Morrison was an instructor in English at Texas southern university at Houston and taught in the English department at Howard during 1955-1957. While still teaching at Texas southern university she got married to Harold Morrison and later on had two children, Harold Morrison and Slade Morison, after 6 years she divorced him and made her first book “The Bluest Eyes” (1970) . After this she made two more novels “Sula” and “Song of Solomon “. The book “Song of Solomon” really touched a lot of people because the novel explained the horrifying lives of slaves and how ex-slaves past still haunts her. In 1993 she won her first award for “Author who in the novels characterize by visionary and poetic impact, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality”. Toni was often Critized for writing her books only hating white people but that was not the point she was making. As of today Toni Morrison is still living and retired. One of her most famous quotes is “If there is a book you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.                By ;Janay Diaab

An African-American born in Shiloh, Alabama on October 5, 1929 and still is present. She is known to be the first black woman to attend a University. Lucy's father was a sharecropper and she was the youngest child in a family of 5 sons and 4 daughters. She attended public school in Shiloh through the tenth grade, then she attended Linden Academy in Linden, AL and graduated in 1947.  She then later studied at Miles College in Fairfield, AL and graduated with a BA in English in 1952. Then, September 1952, Lucy and her friend Pollie Myers; a married, civil rights activist with the NAACP, applied to the University of Alabama. Lucy only applied because she wanted to get her second graduate degree in a school with the best possible education. Lucy got accepted until the school found out she was black. Pollie did not get accepted since she is married and was considered an unsuitable student. The NAACP filed a court case against the University for racial discrimination because of what happened to Lucy. After a three year battle, on February 3, 1956 Lucy became won and became the first African American to attend a white public school in the state.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autherine_Lucy