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| | Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Gates took an interest in local civil rights issues and with three other fls, known as the "Fearsome Foursome," pressured the Blue Jay restaurant and nightclub to integrate. |
 | | With the publication of his 1989 book, The Signifying Monkey: Toward a Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism, Gates was recognized widely as one of the leading scholars of African- American studies. |
 | | Gates is one of the most respected fl literary scholars and has co-edited a series of critical perspectives on authors such as Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, and Zora Neale Hurston. |
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