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Effie Lee Newsome: Poems and Author Profile
12022-08-03T16:45:16-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e12132plain2024-03-12T11:01:02-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Effie Lee Newsome (1885-1979) was born in Philadelphia, though her family moved to Ohio when she was quite young. Newsome initially began publishing in The Crisis as Mary Effie Lee in 1917. She married Reverend Henry Nesby Newsome in 1920, and afterward published as Effie Lee Newsome. She wrote a monthly column for The Crisis called "The Little Page," between 1925 and 1934. She also wrote poetry for adults.
Newsome worked as a librarian at an elementary school in Wilberforce, Ohio.
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12022-08-02T13:04:39-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Effie Lee Newsome, "Magnificat" (1922)1plain2022-08-02T13:04:39-04:0012/01/1922Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-03-12T10:44:06-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Effie Lee Newsome, "A Black Boy Dreams" (1927)1plain2024-03-12T10:44:06-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12023-08-07T09:43:52-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Effie Lee Newsome, "At the Pool" (1927)1plain2023-08-07T09:43:52-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-03-10T08:35:26-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Effie Lee Newsome (Mary Effie Lee), "The Lord" (1927)1plain2024-03-10T08:35:26-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-03-11T10:00:35-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Effie Lee Newsome, "Mattinata" (1927)1plain2024-03-11T10:00:35-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12023-05-14T12:55:21-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Mary Effie Lee Newsome, "Pansy" (1927)1plain2023-05-14T12:55:21-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12023-05-16T10:07:41-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Mary Effie Lee Newsome, "Quoits" (1927)1plain2023-05-16T10:07:41-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12023-05-14T12:57:27-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Mary Effie Lee Newsome, "Sassafras Tea" (1927)1plain2023-05-14T12:57:27-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12023-05-14T12:56:35-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Mary Effie Lee Newsome, "Sky Pictures" (1927)1plain2023-05-14T12:56:35-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12023-05-16T10:06:03-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Mary Effie Lee Newsome, "The Baker's Boy" (1927)1plain2023-05-16T10:06:03-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12023-05-16T10:01:21-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Mary Effie Lee Newsome, "The Quilt" (1927)1plain2023-05-16T10:01:21-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12023-05-16T10:06:56-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Mary Effie Lee Newsome, "Wild Roses" (1927)1plain2023-05-16T10:06:56-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12023-08-07T09:42:07-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Effie Lee Newsome, "The Bird in the Cage" (1927)1plain2023-08-07T09:42:07-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1