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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Edward J. Cabbell, Historian, Papers, A&M 0217, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Biographical / Historical
Edward Cabbell's career as an author began with the publication of a short story in Phylon: The Atlanta University Review of Race and Culture. In 1970 he published his first book of poetry which received critical praise from the poet and independent African-American publisher of Broadside Press, Dudley Randall. Randall compared Cabbell favorably to his contemporaries, poets such as Sonia Sanchez and Don Lee (Haki Madhubuti). While he continued to publish more short stories and poetry, he became a guest editor and contributor to Appalachian publications such as: Now and Then, Hill & Valley, Goldenseal and Mountain Life & Work. Cabbell also founded and directed the John Henry Memorial Foundation in Princeton, West Virginia. The development of his poetry and literature is as a voice of the African-American Appalachian experience immortalizing it in a way comparable to Langston Hughes of the Harlem Renaissance.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- African Americans
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans.
- Appalachian Region
- Authors -- Letters and papers
- Cabbell, Edward J., 1946-
- Photography
- Poetry.
- Randall, Dudley, 1914-2000
Significant Persons Associated With the Collection
- Cabbell, Edward J., 1946-
- Randall, Dudley, 1914-2000