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Which African-American women have won Pulitzer Prizes?

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Journalism awards may not be inclusive, due to lack of information about the ethnicity of winners.

1950 Gwendolyn Brooks, Annie Allen, Poetry

1983 Alice Walker, The Color Purple, Fiction

1987 Rita Dove, Thomas and Beulah, Poetry

1988 Toni Morrison, Beloved, Fiction

1994 Isabel Wilkerson, Feature Writing, The New York Times

2002 Suzan-Lori Parks, Top Dog/Under Dog, Drama

2006 Robin Givham, Criticism, The Washington Post

2007 Cynthia Tucker, Commentary, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

2007 Natasha Trethewey, Native Guard, Poetry

2009 Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello, an American Family History, History

2009 Lynn Nottage, Ruined, Drama

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