Esther Popel (1896 –1958)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. List of Illustrations xix
4. Preface to the Second Edition xxi
5. Foreword to the 1989 Edition xxv
6. Acknowledgments xxix
7. Introduction xxxiii
8. A Note on the Revised Text lxix
9. Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1902–1981) 3
10. Ethel Caution-Davis (1880 –1981) 16
11. Carrie Williams Clifford (1862–1934) 22
12. Anita Scott Coleman (1890 –1960) 33
13. Marion Grace Conover (?–?) 48
14. Mae V. Cowdery (1909–1953) 51
15. Clarissa Scott Delany (1901–1927) 73
16. Blanche Taylor Dickinson (1896 –?) 77
17. Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875–1935) 86
18. Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882–1961) 96
19. Sarah Collins Fernandis (1863–1951) 107
20. Sarah Lee Brown Fleming (1876 –1963) 111
21. Alice E. Furlong (?–?) 114
22. Edythe Mae Gordon (1896 –?) 118
23. Angelina Weld Grimké (1880 –1958) 123
24. Gladys May Casely Hayford (1904 –1950) 137
25. Alvira Hazzard (1899–1953) 146
26. Virginia Houston (?–?) 149
27. Dorothy Vena Johnson (1898–1970) 155
28. Georgia Douglas Johnson (1877–1966) 158
29. Helen Aurelia Johnson (?–?) 174
30. Helene Johnson (1906 –1995) 178
31. Gertrude Parthenia McBrown (1902–1989) 200
32. Myra Estelle Morris (?–?) 208
33. Beatrice M. Murphy (1908–1992) 213
34. Pauli Murray (1910 –1985) 217
35. Effie Lee Newsome (1885–1979) 223
36. Lucia Mae Pitts (1904 –1973) 233
37. Esther Popel (1896 –1958) 236
38. Grace Vera Postles (1906 –?) 247
39. Ida Rowland (1904 –?) 252
40. Anne Spencer (1882–1975) 256
41. Clara Ann Thompson (1869–1949) 269
42. Lucy Mae Turner (1884 –?) 275
43. Lucy Ariel Williams (1905–1973) 287
44. Octavia B. Wynbush (1898– ca. 1972) 292
45. Appendix: Anthologies with Women’s Poetry and Collections of Poetry by Women of the Harlem Renaissance 295
46. About the editor 299