Renaissance Women: Effie Lee Newsome

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Society & Culture, Education, History

4.3 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Effie Lee Newsome (1885–1979) was a Harlem Renaissance poet and activist. She is most famous for her volume of children’s poetry, Gladiola Garden: Poems of Outdoors and Indoors for Second Grade Readers. As the NAACP got started, Newsome also worked extensively with W.E.B DuBois on TCrisis magazine, writing poetry for the magazine and editing the “Little Page” column. Her writings merged nature with the fight for civil rights, linking natural history and conservation to the problems of segregation.

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1:17.0	This Black History Month, we're talking about Renaissance women. As part of the famed cultural and artistic Harlem Renaissance movement, these women found beauty in an often ugly world.
1:29.1	Today, we're talking about a poet whose work spoke to the beauty of nature,
1:34.4	whose pen crafted tales of warbling baby birds at dawn and the subtle glow of fireflies at night.
1:41.4	But what makes her work special is that it catered to a demographic that not only
1:46.2	needed to see the beauty of the outside world, but the beauty within themselves. I'm talking about
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