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Effie Lee Newsome: Poems and Author Profile

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Effie 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. 

Contents of this path:

  1. Effie Lee Newsome, "Magnificat" (1922)
  2. Effie Lee Newsome (Mary Effie Lee), "O Autumn, Autumn!" (1918)
  3. Effie Lee Newsome (Mary Effie Lee), "Morning Light" (1918)
  4. Effie Lee Newsome (Mary Effie Lee), "Sunset" (1921)
  5. Effie Lee Newsome, "Sun Disk" (1923)
  6. Effie Lee Newsome, "The Bronze Legacy (To a Brown Boy)" (1922)
  7. Effie Lee Newsome, "A Black Boy Dreams" (1927)
  8. Effie Lee Newsome, "At the Pool" (1927)
  9. Effie Lee Newsome (Mary Effie Lee), "The Lord" (1927)
  10. Effie Lee Newsome, "Mattinata" (1927)
  11. Effie Lee Newsome, "Negro Street Serenade (In the South)" (1926)
  12. Mary Effie Lee Newsome, "Pansy" (1927)
  13. Mary Effie Lee Newsome, "Quoits" (1927)
  14. Mary Effie Lee Newsome, "Sassafras Tea" (1927)
  15. Mary Effie Lee Newsome, "Sky Pictures" (1927)
  16. Mary Effie Lee Newsome, "The Baker's Boy" (1927)
  17. Mary Effie Lee Newsome, "The Quilt" (1927)
  18. Mary Effie Lee Newsome, "Wild Roses" (1927)
  19. Effie Lee Newsome, "The Bird in the Cage" (1927)