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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 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.
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.
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 ...
13. Nov. 2019 · The two got married on May 15, 1901, at Dixie’s home and permanently moved to Lynchburg in 1903. Here, they built a home at 1313 Pierce Street and raised three children together, two daughters, Alroy and Bethel, and a son, Chauncey Spencer.
Anne Spencer was born inauspiciously on a Virginia plantation. Yet the combination of loving, though irreconcilable, parents and an unorthodox, isolated youth formed her extraordinary independence, introspection, and conviction.
6. Dez. 2019 · Amidst the constraining contexts of Jim Crow violence and segregation, Anne Spencer is an exemplary moral agent because she carved out spaces for joy in her own life and for others; she expressed the resilience of Black creativity despite limited opportunities to make a living doing so; she created networks and expanded opportunities for local B...
