On this day in 1903, Countee Cullen was born. Raised in a Methodist parsonage, Cullen found his voice early, beginning to write poetry at age fourteen while attending DeWitt Clinton High School in New York. In 1922, he enrolled at New York University, where his literary talents flourished. His poems were frequently published in The Crisis, the influential NAACP magazine edited by W.E.B. Du Bois, establishing him as a leading voice of the Harlem Renaissance.
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