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Dr. Turner was an educator, scholar and leading literary critic. He legitimized the inclusion of American and Black authors in academia, and was deemed the "Father of African American Studies" by the Phi Beta Kappa society.[1]
Darwin was born in 1931. "Turner enrolled into the University of Cincinnati at the age of 13 and received his undergraduate degree within three years with Phi Beta Kappa honors as the youngest student ever to graduate from the school. In 1949, at the age of 18, he received his Masters degree in English and American Drama from the University of Cincinnati. By the time he was twenty-five years old, he received his PhD degree from the University of Chicago."[2]
He died in 1991.
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