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Which finding, if true, would most strongly support the scholar's claim? The novelist Toni Morrison was the first Black woman to work as an editor at the publishing company Random House, from 1967 to 1983. A scholar asserts that one of Morrison's likely aims during her time as an editor was to strengthen the presence of Black writers on the list of Random House's published authors.
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- 1The percentage of authors published by Random House who were Black rose in the early 1970s and stabilized throughout the decade.✓
- 2Black authors who were interviewed in the 1980s and 1990s were highly likely to cite Toni Morrison's novels as a principal influence on their work.
- 3The novels written by Toni Morrison that were published after 1983 sold significantly more copies and received wider critical acclaim than the novels she wrote that were published before 1983.
- 4Works that were edited by Toni Morrison during her time at Random House displayed stylistic characteristics that distinguished them from works that were not edited by Morrison.
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The percentage of authors published by Random House who were Black rose in the early 1970s and stabilized throughout the decade.
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