![]() For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. Their work together is an important part of Newsome's story, for it was Newsome's job to carry on within the pages of The Crisis Magazine (the NAACP monthly) what Du Bois had tried to achieve in his periodical for children, The Brownies' Book (also under NAACP auspices).This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. Newsome's contribution to children's literature was aligned to some degree with that of W.E.B Du Bois, her editor in the early days of the NAACP. Newsome was also expected to teach the black youth about their history as a people and how to turn the anger toward white America into love and compassion. Such ideas were present in poems such as Newsome's To a Black Boy. It was Newsome's job to teach the black youth of America that to be colored was to be beautiful. Upon starting to write for The Crisis in 1917, and then in 1925, writing for her own section of the magazine known as The Little Page, Newsome was given a specific task. Though Effie Lee Newsome was primarily known as a nature poet and a contributor to children's literature, her impression upon the people of the Harlem Renaissance was clear. While in Ohio, Effie Lee Newsome worked as a librarian in an elementary school and continued to build her career as a writer during the Harlem Renaissance. ![]() ![]() After marriage, both Effie and Reverend Henry moved to Birmingham, Alabama, and later relocated to Wilberforce, Ohio. In 1920, Mary Effie Lee married Reverend Henry Nesby Newsome and thereafter was known as Effie Lee Newsome. Newsome would continue to contribute to a section of The Crisis known as The Little Page, until 1934. Starting in 1917, Effie Lee Newsome began working with W.E.B. Effie would later receive her higher education from Wilberforce University (1901-1904), Oberlin College (1904-1905), the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts (1907-1908), and the University of Pennsylvania (1911-1914). Newsome's father Benjamin was a Bishop and led the family from Texas to Ohio during Newsome's childhood. Mary Effie Lee, better known as Effie Lee Newsome, was born on January 19, 1885, in Philadelphia, to parents Benjamin Franklin and Mary Elizabeth Ashe Lee. She attended Wilberforce University, Oberlin College, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to her writing, she worked as a librarian at an elementary school in Wilberforce, Ohio. Her only volume of poetry was Gladiola Gardens (1940). ![]() She also wrote poems for adults, which were included in The Poetry of the Negro (1949). Newsome also illustrated for children's magazines and edited children's columns for Opportunity. She edited a column in The Crisis from 1925 until 1929, called "The Little Page", where she made drawings and wrote poetry for children and parables about being young and black in the 1920s. She mostly wrote children's poems, and was the first famous African-American poet whose work was mostly in this area. Effie Lee Newsome (1885 –1979), born Mary Effie Lee in Philadelphia, was a Harlem Renaissance writer.
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