About Naomi Polk
Lived 1892 – 1984 (aged 91–92). Naomi Polk was an American artist, painter, domestic worker and poet.
Naomi Polk (1892 – May 1, 1984) was an American artist.
Early life and family history Naomi Polk was born in 1892 in Houston, Texas, to Woodson and Josephine Howard. She descended from Cherokees on her father's side and from enslaved people in the United States of African descent on her mother's side. She went to the Gregory School and the Booker T Washington School in Houston before dropping out to help raise her young cousins. She grew up in the Fourth Ward and in Acres Homes, then a suburb of Houston.
Personal life Polk married Bill Myers, with whom she had three children before he was killed in 1933 by a Dallas policeman.
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Who was Naomi Polk?
African American artist
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Naomi Polk was born in 1892 in Houston.
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Naomi Polk died in 1984.
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Naomi Polk was an artist, painter, domestic worker and poet.
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Naomi Polk was American.
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