Effie+Lee+Newsome

Effie Lee Newsome Rachel Howell

Biography: Effie Lee Newsome wrote children's poetry and short fictions. She was an important part of the Harlem Renaissance and she worked with writers like Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps. She wrote a column in the //Crisis// for young children about being a young African American at the time. She was very intelligent and was surrounded by other African Americans like her (MacCann, http://www.answers.com/topic/effie-lee-newsome). Newsome expressed herself through her poems to help children to see the importance of being young and African American in American in the 1920's (Book Rags, http://www.bookrags.com/biography/effie-lee-newsome-dlb/).

Analysis: The poem I chose was "The Bronze Legacy (To a Brown Boy)." It's talking about how they should be proud of their color and not be ashamed. It says that the strongest things in the world are brown so they should thank God that they are brown.

Works sited: "Effie Lee Newsome: Information from Answers.com." //Answers.com: Wiki Q&A combined with free online dictionary, thesaurus, and encyclopedias//. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Apr. 2011. . "Book Rags." //Effie Lee Newsome Biography//. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Apr. 2011. .