This is Profile America for this 20th day of Black History Month. From Booker T. Washington's Up From Slavery to modern day authors such as Terry McMillan, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker, they have chronicled the black experience. The first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize was Gwendolyn Brooks in 1950 for her work, Annie Allen .
Fiction is the most popular category.
This special edition of Profile America is brought to you as a public service by the U.S. Census Bureau. May 31, 2001.