Nikki Giovanni -The Struggle of an Africa-American Woman
             Nikki Giovanni through her work has become one of the most celebrated and controversial poets in the nation. In her three decade career she has published thirteen books of poetry. Giovanni's involvement to the Civil Rights Movement influenced her first three poem books. Throughout her career she has obtained many awards and titles for her poetry as well as for her demeanor.
             Giovanni was born under the name of Yolande Cornelia Giovanni Jr. on June 7, 1943, in Knoxville Tennessee. Soon after she was born her family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio were she lived all her childhood. In 1957, she made the decision to move back to Knoxville, with her grandparents. There she attended Austin High School. She graduated early and enrolled at Fisk University, in Nashville, as and early entrant. In 1961, her grandfather Brown Watson died and caused her to be dismissed form Fisk and return to Cincinnati. In 1964, Giovanni reenters Fisk; were in three years she graduates. That same year in Cincinnati she organized the first Black Arts Festival. This festival was meant to create awareness of arts in the Black Community. The festival was held in The New Theater.
             Her first tree collections of poems were: Black Feeling, Black Talk (1967), Black Judgement (1968), and Re: Creation (1970). In these three collections of poems she urged revolution. In many of these poems she urges violence. These poems reflect the struggle many African-Americans went trough in that day in age. During this period of time the Civil Rights movement was divided; some searched for their rights in peace, and there were those who did not believe peace would gain them their rights. The segregation, and discrimination affected the work of many writers and poets during this time: these two obstacles in life make up Giovanni's poems at the beginning of her career. Black Judgement was published with a gra...