On August 5, 2019, Toni Morrison, one of the greatest literary figures of the 20th and 21st centuries, died at the age of 88. She was the first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize in literature and the author of eleven novels, dozens of essays, as well as literary criticism. This dataset was collected using the streaming API with the keywords "toni morrison" and "tonimorrison" beginning on August 6 (when the news of Morrison's death was announced) and concluding on August 9. The dataset contains 1,170,032 tweets.