A woman named Emma Watson was born in 1890, then at the early age of nineteen was married to John Brown Watson. John was a shy, gentle man who was twenty years older than his wife Emma. Emma gave birth to their first daughter on January 5, 1919, thins was Nikki's mother, Yolanda Cornelia Watson.

Soon after the birth of their child the Wastons had to leave Albany in a rush. Emma had argued with a white woman shopkeeper about the lengths of some cloth. Having disagreements with white people was very dangerous for people of color in those days. Because in southern towns, lynching of the colored people were still popular.

After leaving Albany Georgia the Watson's settled down in Knoxville, Tennessee, by buying a house in a black neighborhood. Over the next years the Watsons had two more daughters Anna and Ages. John supported the family by teaching Latin at an all black school call Austin High.

Yolanda, John and Emma oldest daughter and child was smart, pretty and artiste, and athletic. In Knoxville College in the mid-thirties she met Jones Giovanni. He was a well-manner, hansom guy with an unusual las

Gus Giovanni, and Yolanda got married after their graduation, and soon welcomed first child to the world on September 2, 1940. They had a baby girl named GaryAnn. A couple of years later Yolanda was pregnant again. Yolanda was hoping for a boy, and told Gary she would soon have a brother. The whole family started calling the unborn child Nikki. The on June 7, 1943 Yolanda had a baby girl, named Yolanda Cornelia Giovanni Jr. As she grew people began to call her Nikki.

By the time Nikki Giovanni's fourth grade year in school, her family a moved to Lincoln Heights. Lincoln Heights was a better working class Neighborhood. Yolanda had started teaching the third grade a St. Simon's Episcopal School. While Gary attended South Woodlawn School, Nikki attended St. Simon's Episcopal Scholl with her mother. Writing was Nikki's favorite subject. In this class students wrote stories poetry and letters. One day the teacher's mother died, the school's principle call on the children to write sympany letter's. This letter proves that Nikki developed a very unique writing style as a young child.

So I hope you don't only know that Nikki Giovanni was a Poet, a professor, an activist, a mother, and writer and a influence, but I hope you know that she was a real person with family and personality.

Nikki and Gary spent most summers and holidays with their Grand parents, John and Emma Lonvenia Watson in Tennessee. Her Grandparents lived in a cozy home at 400 Mulveney St.

Instead of starting her senior year of high school in the fall of 1960, Nikki started her Freshman year of college at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee.

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