Katherine Garrison Chapin

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Katherine Garrison Chapin was an American poet and librettist known for her collaborations with composer William Grant Still and her engagement with social and racial themes in her work.

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instanceOf librettist
person
poet
activeInPeriod 20th century
alsoKnownAs Katherine Garrison Chapin Biddle
collaboratedWith Leopold Stokowski
William Grant Still
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
educatedAt Columbia University
Sorbonne
linked to: Sorbonne University
ethnicGroup White American
familyName Chapin
fieldOfWork American literature
opera libretti
genre libretto
poetry
givenName Katherine
hasPartInCollection Library of Congress manuscripts
hasTheme anti-lynching
democracy
patriotism
racial equality
influencedBy contemporary racial politics in the United States
languageOfWorkOrName English
mainSubject lynching in the United States
race relations in the United States
social justice
movement Harlem Renaissance-related literature
notableFor collaborations with William Grant Still
notableWork And They Lynched Him on a Tree
Bright Mariner
Outside of the World
Plain Chant for America
Time Has No Shadow
occupation librettist
poet
participatedIn American civil rights discourse
placeOfBirth Waterford, Connecticut
placeOfDeath Washington, D.C.
positionHeld member of the President's Committee on Civil Rights
relative Francis Biddle
sexOrGender female
spouse Francis Biddle
workLocation New York City
Washington, D.C.
wroteTextFor And They Lynched Him on a Tree
Plain Chant for America

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Francis Biddle spouse Katherine Garrison Chapin