Daily News | Anita Cornwell, 99, groundbreaking Black lesbian feminist writer dies
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Cornwell died May 27, at Wesley Enhanced Living Center at Stapeley in Germantown, “surrounded by the compassionate women who cared for her,” Jones said.A native of Greenwood, S.C., Cornwell moved to the Philadelphia area when she was a teenager and attended Temple University for journalism. She “Perhaps if I had not been so badly scarred from having been born black, poor, and female in the Deep South at a time when all blacks were invisible ... I might have been more enterprising,” she wrote in the essay “Three for the Price of One: Notes from a Gay, Black Feminist.
Her papers, which are being archived at William Way LGBT Community Center’s John J. Wilcox Archives, are filled with rejection letters from publishing houses telling Cornwell her writing did not fit into the image they were seeking to build, said Ainsley Wynn Eakins, the archivist processing Cornwell’s papers.She struggled to survive financially, saying inthat she chose apartments in West and North Philadelphia based not on community or neighborhood preferences but on what she could afford.
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