What is Gaston Neal?
{{Infobox person/Wikidata|fetchwikidata=ALL}} '''Gaston Neal''' (1934 - October 21, 1999) was an [[Americans|American]] [[poet]] and [[activist]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/article/13018792/gaston-neal-1934-1999|title=Gaston Neal, 1934-1999|website=Washington City Paper|date=29 October 1999|language=en|access-date=2020-06-23}}</ref><ref name=wapo>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1999/10/22/activist-and-poet-gaston-t-neal-dies/e1bde9b9-0803-4ec6-937d-4bb66e7da0e9/|title=Activist and Poet Gaston T. Neal Dies|date=Oct 22, 1999|newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref> He was from [[Pittsburgh]].<ref name=wapo/> He won a Mayor’s Award for Excellence in Literary Arts. He co-founded the New School for Afro-American Thought.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.interchange.org/Gaston/gaston1.html|title=Gaston Neal wins arts Oscar|website=www.interchange.org|access-date=2020-06-23|archive-date=2006-07-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060713044037/http://www.interchange.org/Gaston/gaston1.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CjoDAAAAMBAJ&dq=Gaston+Neal&pg=PA12|title=Black World/Negro Digest|last=Granton|first=E. Fannie|date=June 1967|publisher=Johnson Publishing Company|language=en}}</ref> == Related pages == *[[List of poets from North America]] == References == <references /> == Other websites == * {{C-SPAN|gastonneal}} * [https://anacostia.si.edu/collection/archives/object/sova-acma-09-023-ref539 Gaston Neal: 100 Years of Black Writing] anacostia.si.edu/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Neal, Gaston}} [[Category:1934 births]] [[Category:1999 deaths]] [[Category:American poets]] [[Category:American activists]] [[Category:Writers from Pittsburgh]] [[Category:African-American people]] {{US-bio-stub}}