Prejudice Unveiled: and Other Poems
Title:
Prejudice Unveiled: and Other Poems
Description:
In this volume of poetry, activist poet Lizelia Moorer, a teacher at South Carolina’s first black college, presents a sweeping portrayal of the nature of racial oppression. She noted that white writers misrepresented the experience of African Americans in the South and set out to tell “the unvarnished truth.” She confronts lynching, debt peonage, rape, segregation, and the hypocrisy of the church. The frontispiece may be the first depiction of an African American woman with a typewriter.
Creator:
Moorer, Lizelia Augusta Jenkins
Publisher:
Roxburgh Publishing Company
Date:
1907
Coverage:
Boston
Display Date:
1907
Hover Text:
Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer — poet and social reformer
Published Item:
P
Item Index:
7
Item Sort:
1900s
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