Hope's Highway: Clouds and Sunshine (African-American Women Writers, 1910-1940 S.) - Hardcover

Fleming, Sarah Lee Brown

9780816116256: Hope's Highway: Clouds and Sunshine (African-American Women Writers, 1910-1940 S.)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0816116253 ISBN 13: 9780816116256

Publisher: G K Hall & Co,US, 1994

The first black teacher in the Brooklyn school system, Sarah Lee Brown Fleming (1875-1963) is known as an educator and social and community activist, but few know her as a writer. Therefore, her published work has received little critical attention. Her novel Hope's Highway (1918) is a tale of racial uplift in which, through education and moral fortitude, a black man rises to become a "leader of his people." Also included in this volume is Fleming's collection of poetry, Clouds and Sunshine (1920), a work divided into three sections: the first offers poems on such general themes as love, patriotism, and religion; the second and third sections - entitled "Dialect Poems" and "Race Poems," respectively - treat racial themes.

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"African American Women Writers", 1910-1940 is a projected 30-volume series consisting of facsimile reprints of works by black women writers published during the first half of the 20th century. The collection covers a wide range of general fiction, poetry, drama, biography and autobiography, essay and history. Many of which appear here for the first time since their original publication. The first black teacher in the Brooklyn school system, Sarah Lee Brown Fleming (1875-1963) is known as an educator and social and community activist but her published work has received little critical acclaim. Her novel "Hope's Highway" (1918) is a tale of racial uplift in which, through education and moral fortitude a black man can rise to become a "leader of his people". Fleming's collection of poetry, "Clouds and Sunshine" (1920) is divided into three sections: love, patriotism, and religion; dialect poems; and race poems.

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