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May Miller

American writer

This article is about the poet and playwright. For the gymnast, see May Miller (gymnast).

May Miller
Portrait c. 1940
Born	January 26, 1899 Washington, D.C.
Died	February 8, 1995 (aged 96) Washington, D.C.
Occupation	Poet and playwright
Education	Howard University, The American University, Columbia University
Alma mater	Howard University
Literary movement	Harlem Renaissance
Notable works	Play: The Bog Guide, 1925. Poem: Inauguration of US President Jimmy Carter, 1977.

May Miller (January 26, 1899 – February 8, 1995)^[1] was an American poet, playwright and educator. Miller, who was African-American, became known as the most widely published female playwright of the Harlem Renaissance and had seven volumes of poetry published during her career as a writer.^[2]

Early life

May Miller was born in Washington, D.C., to Kelly and Anna May Miller, one of the Millers' five children. Her father, Kelly Miller, was the professor and founder of the department of sociology at Howard Univ

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May Miller

(1899–1995), poet and playwright.

May Miller was born on 26 January 1889 in Washington, D.C., to Annie May Butler and Kelly Miller, a distinguished professor of sociology at Howard University. At Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, May Miller studied with prominent African American dramatist Mary Burrill and poet Angelina Weld Grimké. As a drama major at Howard University, she directed, acted, and produced plays while collaborating with Alain Locke and Montgomery Gregory in the founding of a black drama movement. Later, she taught speech, theater, and dance at Frederick Douglass High School in Baltimore, Maryland, and was a lecturer and poet at Monmouth College, the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and the Philips Exeter Academy.

Most of her plays were written between 1920 and 1945. A number won drama prizes, including Within the Shadows, Bog Guide, and The Cuss'd Thing. Four were published in the anthology she edited with Willis Richardson in 1935: Negro History in Thirteen Plays, a collection that firmly established Miller's national reputation. Of these, Sojourner

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The teachings of Kelly Miller were not lost on his daughter. But May's use of those lessons was entirely her own, surfacing in every poem she wrote--and in her life as a model for us all. May's poem, "Blazing Accusation" was written after the murder of four young girls in the 1963 bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama. Denise McNair, 11, Cynthia Wesley, 14, Carole Robertson, 14, Addie Mae Collins, 14. One of those responsible has finally been brought to trial all these years later. After less than three hours of deliberation, a jury found Thomas Blanton guilty of four counts of first degree murder and sentenced him to life imprisonment on May 1, 2001. The poem contains the words "blazing" and "blazon"--to proclaim. The "unforgetting hill" refers to the place of crucifixion.

(In racial upheaval in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963, four young girls died in the blasting of a church.)

Too early a death for those who young
have lost prophecy in blast and flame.
The broken have been assembled
as best could be to pose for burial.
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