In a poem, a woman with this surname “shouldered her cross, put her worldly goods aside” and had the sun “rest on her shoulders bringing the heat and the light of truth.” A real-life woman with this surname is the second namesake of a poem stating how people “never understand that all the while I was quite happy.” An author with this surname wrote two plays inspired by The Scarlet Letter, one depicting Hester with five illegitimate children. In the Blood is by an author with this surname, who wrote about the (*) slicing of a nylon stocking holding a $500 inheritance before a game of three-card monte by Booth and Lincoln. (10[1])In a poem, Nikki Giovanni paired her first name with an activist with this surname who, in a Rita Dove poem, is “On the Bus.” For 10 points, give this surname of the author of Topdog/Underdog and the latter activist in “Nikki-Rosa.” ■END■ (0[2])