Edwin Mims American Activist
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Birthday |
30th November, 1871
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Birthplace |
Richmond, Arkansas, U.S.
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Died |
1959
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Place of Death |
Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
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Buried |
Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery
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Nationality |
American
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Occupation Text |
University professor
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Occupation |
Activist
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Edwin Mims (1872-1959) was an American university Professor of English literature. He served as the Chair of the English Department at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee for thirty years from 1912 to 1942, and he taught many members of the Fugitives and the Southern Agrarians, two literary movements in the South. He was a staunch opponent of lynching, and a practicing Methodist.