Anita Cornwell

Anita Cornwell

Anita Cornwell (born September 23 1923) became one of the few black lesbians in the United States who were living out, speaking out, and writing out in the 1950s and 1960s. Born in Greenwood, South Carolina, Cornwell moved to Pennsylvania at age sixteen, living first in Yeadon with her aunt, then in Philadelphia with her mother, who moved north when Anita was eighteen.

Cornwell's early writings, published in "The Ladder" and "The Negro Digest", were among the first to identify the author as a black lesbian.

Books

"Black Lesbian in White America" (Naiad Press, 1983)


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