Nikki Giovanni

Some people descried Nikki Giovanni as been a History of Nikki’s Family and Early Childhood.

A woman named Emma Watson was born in 1890, then at the early age of nineteen was married to John Brown Watson. John was a shy, gentle man who was twenty years older than his wife Emma. Emma gave birth to their first daughter on January 5, 1919, thins was Nikki’s mother, Yolanda Cornelia Watson.

Soon after the birth of their child the Wastons had to leave Albany in a rush. Emma had argued with a white woman shopkeeper about the lengths of some cloth. Having disagreements with white people was very dangerous for people of color in those days. Because in southern towns, lynching of the colored people were still popular.

After leaving Albany Georgia the Watson’s settled down in Knoxville, Tennessee, by buying a house in a black neighborhood. Over the next years the Watsons had two more daughters Anna and Ages. John supported the family by teaching Latin at an all black school call Austin High.

Yolanda, John and Emma oldest daughter and child was smart, pretty and artiste, and athletic. In Knoxville College in the mid-thirties she met Jones Giovanni. He was a well-manner, hansom guy with an unusual las

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Simon’s Episcopal Scholl with her mother. Writing was Nikki’s favorite subject. After a while Nikki grew tired and the little boy won. The Giovannis’s also taught their two girls to be thankful for whatever you have. Living with her grandmother also meant hard work along with chores for example waxing the floor in the pantry, and Nikki also had to organize the refrigerator. Than day Nikki learned the important of not fighting other people’s battles. As she grew people began to call her Nikki.

After a year of being as Wayne High, Nikki called her grandparents and asked if she could stay with them for the school year to attend Austin High. The two women were opinionated, stubborn, and good-hearted. When Gary had learned of this, she stormed and told her mother about the happenings. IN the fall she started the ninth grade in a new school called Wayne High School.

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