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Anne Bethel Spencer (born Bannister; February 6, 1882 – July 27, 1975) was an American poet, teacher, civil rights activist, librarian, and gardener. She was a prominent figure of the Harlem Renaissance, also known as the New Negro Movement, despite living in Virginia for most of her life, far from the center of the movement in New ...
Anne Spencer war eine US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin und Aktivistin der Harlem Renaissance. Sie war die erste Frau aus Virginia und erste Afroamerikanerin, deren Gedichte in der Norton Anthology of American Poetry veröffentlicht wurden. Sie setzte sich für Gleichstellung und Bildungschancen für alle ein und sie empfing ...
Anne Spencer was a poet, civil rights advocate, teacher, librarian, wife, mother, and gardener. Most notably, Anne Spencer was an accomplished poet and figure of the Harlem Renaissance, the black literary and cultural movement of the 1920s, with over thirty poems published in her lifetime.
Spencer’s poetry engages themes of religion, race, and the natural world. Thirty of her poems were published during her lifetime, in such anthologies as The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922) and Caroling Dusk (1927). She was the first African American woman...
Anne Spencer. 1882-1975. Mariana Brandman, NWHM Predoctoral Fellow in Women’s History | 2020-2022. Harlem Renaissance poet Anne Spencer lived her entire life in Virginia, where she tended her garden, worked as a librarian and teacher, hosted luminaries of Black intellectual and cultural life, and fought for equal rights for African Americans.
13. Nov. 2019 · Anne Spencer (born Annie Bethel Bannister; February 6, 1882 – July 27, 1975) was an American poet, teacher, librarian, gardener, and civil rights activist. She’s best remembered as an important figure of the Harlem Renaissance and as the second African-American poet to be included in the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry.
Anne Spencer's poetry, often “scribblings” found on the walls of her home and loose scraps of paper, was written for herself rather than for a public audience. Spencer used language to give voice to her thoughts, reactions, and, quite often, her indignation. She was an outspoken advocate for the rights of all beings: civil rights, women’s ...
