Jean Toomer, a pioneering African-American writer and the grandson of P.B.S. Pinchback—the first African-American governor of a U.S. state—was born on this day. He is best known for his 1923 book Cane, a modernist masterpiece blending poetry and prose to explore African-American life in the rural South and urban North.
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