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Terri L. Jewell

1954–1995

United States

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Terri Lynn Jewell (October 4, 1954 – November 26, 1995) was an American author, poet and Black lesbian activist. She was the editor of The Black Woman’s Gumbo Ya-Ya, which received the New York City Library Young Persons Reading Award in 1994.

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