Publisher's Synopsis
"African American Women Writers", 1910-1940 is a projected 30-volume series consisting of facsimile reprints of works by black women writers published during the first half of the 20th century. The collection covers a wide range of general fiction, poetry, drama, biography and autobiography, essay and history. Many of which appear here for the first time since their original publication.;The first black teacher in the Brooklyn school system, Sarah Lee Brown Fleming (1875-1963) is known as an educator and social and community activist but her published work has received little critical acclaim. Her novel "Hope's Highway" (1918) is a tale of racial uplift in which, through education and moral fortitude a black man can rise to become a "leader of his people". Fleming's collection of poetry, "Clouds and Sunshine" (1920) is divided into three sections: love, patriotism, and religion; dialect poems; and race poems.
