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    Willard Francis Motley (July 14, 1909 – March 4, 1965) was an American author. Beginning as a teenager, Motley published a column in the African-American...
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    that comment is based on a line in the 1947 novel Knock on Any Door by Willard Motley and its film adaptation.) In 1890s Draper was focused mainly on ancient...
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  • Humphrey Bogart. The movie was based on the 1947 novel of the same name by Willard Motley. The picture gave actor John Derek his breakthrough role as young hoodlum...
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    Lewis, actor best known as Austin Stoneman in The Birth of a Nation. Willard Motley, African-American author. He was raised at 350 West 60th Street. Bernie...
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    Archibald John Motley, Jr. (October 7, 1891 – January 16, 1981), was an American visual artist. Motley is most famous for his colorful chronicling of...
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  • of the same name by Willard Motley, and is a sequel to the 1949 film Knock on Any Door, which was itself based on an earlier Motley novel. In 1950, Nick...
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  • an oft-repeated quotation from the 1947 book Knock on Any Door by Willard Motley, also found in the movie version of the book Live Fast, Love Hard, Die...
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  • international correspondent Ethel Payne, poet Gwendolyn Brooks, author Willard Motley, music critic Dave Peyton, journalists Ida B. Wells, L. Alex Wilson...
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    and Richard Wright. Other Chicago Black Renaissance artists included Willard Motley, William Attaway, Frank Marshall Davis, and Margaret Walker. St. Clair...
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  • started in 1919 Bud Billiken (1909-1965), pen name of American author Willard Motley Bud Billiken Club, social club for African-Americans in Chicago Illinois...
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