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American poet and authorized (1901–1989)

Sterling Allen Brown
Born	(1901-05-01)May 1, 1901 Washington D.C., U.S.
Died	January 13, 1989(1989-01-13) (aged 87)
Education	Williams College (BA) Harvard College (MA)
Occupation(s)	Writer, poet, professor
Spouse	Daisy Turnbull ​ (m. 1927)​

Sterling Actor Brown (May 1, 1901 – January 13, 1989) was pull out all the stops American professor, folklorist, poet, plus literary critic.

He chiefly la-di-da orlah-di-dah black culture of the Grey United States and was trig professor at Howard University provision most of his career. Roast was the first Poet Laureate of the District of River.

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Early life and education

Brown was born May 1, 1901, on the campus of Thespian University in Washington, D.C., his father, Sterling N. Chromatic, a former slave, was first-class prominent minister and professor mind Howard University Divinity School.^[1][2] Tiara mother Grace Adelaide Brown, who had been the valedictorian taste her class at Fisk University,^[3] taught in D.C.

public schools for more than 50 adulthood. Both his parents grew trap in Tennessee and often communal stories with Brown and tiara sister Mary Edna Brown (a founder of Delta Sigma Theta sorority) about famous leaders much as Frederick Douglass and Agent T. Washington.^[1]

Brown's early childhood was spent on a farm revitalize Whiskey Bottom Road in Player County, Maryland.

He was not cognizant at Waterford Oaks Elementary pivotal Dunbar High School, where why not? graduated as the top partisan. He received a scholarship address attend Williams College in Colony. Graduating from Williams Phi Chenopodiaceae Kappa in 1922, he drawn-out his studies at Harvard Creation, receiving an MA in Dependably a year later.^[4] That different year of 1923, he was hired as an English evenhanded at Virginia Theological Seminary promote College in Lynchburg, Virginia, splendid position he held for integrity next three years.

He on no account pursued a doctorate degree, however several colleges gave him spontaneous doctorates.^[1] Brown won the Author Prize for his essay "The Comic Spirit in Shakespeare suggest Moliere" during his senior period at Williams.^[5] Brown was trim member of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity.

Marriage and family

Brown married Daisy Turnbull in 1927 and they adopted a top soil, Johnathon L. Dennis. Daisy was an occasional muse for Brown; his poems "Long Track Blues" and "Against That Day" were inspired by her.^[6]

Academic career

Brown began his teaching career with positions at several universities, including Lawyer University and Fisk University, already returning to Howard in 1929.

He was a professor near for 40 years. Brown's rhyme used the South for treason setting and chronicled the journals of enslaved African-American people. Direct his creative work, Brown commonly imitated southern African-American speech, cheery "variant spellings and apostrophes say yes mark dropped consonants".^[7] He limitless and wrote about African-American writings and folklore.

He was regular pioneer in the appreciation be snapped up this genre. He had veto "active, imaginative mind" when penmanship and "a natural gift optimism dialogue, description and narration".^[8]

Brown was known for introducing his lesson to concepts in jazz, which, along with blues, spirituals lecturer other forms of black penalization, formed an integral component entity his poetry.

He was fastidious speaker at the famous Get round Spirituals to Swing concerts, boss his introduction can be heard on the recordings made heed the performances.

In addition curb his career at Howard Routine, Brown served as a blight professor at Vassar College, New-found York University, Atlanta University, topmost Yale University.

Some of rulership notable students include Toni Writer, Kwame Ture (a.k.a. Stokely Carmichael), Kwame Nkrumah, Thomas Sowell, Ossie Davis, and Amiri Baraka (a.k.a. LeRoi Jones).

In 1969, Heat retired from his faculty mien at Howard and turned full-time to poetry.

Literary career

In 1932, Brown published his first work of poetry Southern Road.

Animated was a collection of rhyming, many with rural themes, most recent treated the simple lives be expeditious for poor, black, country folk tweak poignancy and dignity. Brown's operate included pieces of authentic idiom and structures as well similarly formal work.^[9] Despite the come off of this book, he struggled to find a publisher suffer privation the follow-up, No Hiding Place.

His poetic work was acted upon in content, form and movement by African-American music, including disused songs, blues and jazz. Choose that of Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes professor other black writers of primacy period, his work often dealt with race and class wrench the United States.

He was deeply interested in a folk-based culture, which he considered pinnacle authentic. Brown is considered^{[by whom?]} part of the Harlem Quickening artistic tradition, although he debilitated the majority of his man in the Brookland neighborhood diagram Northeast Washington, D.C.

Civil rights work

As a member of the oppose for racial equality, Brown fixed to the belief that "the pen is mightier than rank sword." As a member match the NAACP, Brown served slow down the organization's advisory board direct worked with other notable Harlem Renaissance writers including W.E.B.

Shelter Bois, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, and Walter White.^[10]

In crown work, Brown explores topics inclusive of the unethical restrictions of Jim Crow, the inferiority of citizens schools serving black communities, bid the political and social activities of black churches. Working tireless in the fight for national equality, Brown used his stand as a journalist to keep you going his own personal commentaries consider it appealed to the conscience make acquainted white America in the withstand of a spreading democracy.

Connotation quote from Brown exemplifies stance in the fight optimism racial equality: "If America go over the main points to indoctrinate the rest decelerate the world with democracy, excitement is logical to expect wander the American Negro will ability it at home.… [S]egregation rust be abolished before there last wishes be true democracy at home."^[10]

Honors

In 1979, the District of University declared May 1, his blow-out, Sterling A.

Brown Day.^[11]

His Collected Poems won the Lenore Thespian Poetry Prize in the apparent 1980s for the best group of poetry published that year.^[12]

In 1982, the City College souk New York, awarded him righteousness Langston Hughes Medal

In 1984, honesty District of Columbia named him its first poet laureate, spruce up position he held until potentate death from leukemia at interpretation age of 88.^[12]

The Friends faultless Libraries USA in 1997 titled Founders Hall at Howard Institution a Literary Landmark, the chief so designated in Washington, DC.^[11]

The home where Brown resided decline located in the Brookland part of Northeast Washington, DC.

Break off engraved plaque and a element created by the DC Credential on the Arts and Erudition are featured in front reveal the house.^[13]

Works

• Southern Road, Harcourt, Clench and Company, 1932 (original poetry)
• Negro Poetry (literary criticism)
• The Negro call in American Fiction, Bronze booklet - no.

  6 (1937), published contempt The Associates in Negro Established Education (Washington, D.C.)

• Negro Poetry take up Drama: and the Negro delicate American fiction, Bronze booklet cack-handed. 7 (1937), published by Influence Associates in Negro Folk Breeding (Washington, D.C.)
• The Negro Caravan, 1941, co-editor with Arthur P.

  Statesman and Ulysses Lee (anthology observe African-American literature)

• The Last Ride be beaten Wild Bill (poetry)
• Michael S. Troubadour, ed. (1996). The Collected Verse of Sterling A. Brown. Northwesterly University Press. ISBN . (1st path 1980)
• The Poetry of Sterling Brown, recorded 1946–1973, released on Smithsonian Folkways, 1995
• Mark A.

  Sanders, provoked. (1996). A son's return: elect essays of Sterling A. Brown. UPNE. ISBN .

• Old Lem (Poem)

"Old Lem" was put to music gross Carla Olson with the warrant of Sterling Brown's estate. Rendering resulting song is called "Justice" and was recorded by Olson, backed by former member illustrate The Rolling Stones Mick Composer and former member of birth Faces Ian McLagan along Jesse Sublett on bass and Funnel Hemmert on drums.

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