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May 18, 2018 · The youngest of six children, Sterling Allen Brown was born on May 1, 1901, on the campus of Howard University, in Washington, D.C. A Howard professor of religion and pastor of the Lincoln Temple Congregational Church, Brown's father, Reverend Sterling Nelson Brown, instilled in his son a sense of achievement and moral refinement.
Apr 30, 2024 · Sterling Brown was an influential African-American teacher, literary critic, and poet whose poetry was rooted in folklore sources and black dialect. The son of a professor at Howard University, Washington, D.C., Brown was educated at Williams College, Williamstown, Mass. (A.B., 1922), and Harvard
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Negritude poet and Senegalese president Léopold Sédar Senghor credited Brown for being “an original militant of Negritude, a precursor of our movement.”. Born in Washington, D.C. just after the turn of the century, Sterling Allen Brown was the youngest of six children and the only son born to a distinguished, middle-class Black family.
Mar 5, 2021 · cfp The Life and Legacy of Sterling A. Brown, the Dean of Afro-American Literary Studies: A Special Issue of The Langston Hughes Review Due Date: 03-05-2021. For many readers and scholars alike, Sterling A. Brown—noted poet, literary critic, and student of southern Black culture—remains in relative obscurity today, his role in the New Negro Movement and beyond overshadowed to a degree by ...
Introduction. Sterling A. Brown (b. 1901–d. 1989) was born into the rather privileged life of black upper-middle class Washington, DC. Despite the growing effects of de jure and de facto racism, Brown used a very accomplished educational background as preparation for a distinguished career as poet, literary and cultural critic, folklorist, anthologist, raconteur, and teacher.
Jan 17, 1989 · Professor Brown was born in Washington on May 1, 1901. His father, Sterling Nelson Brown, was a minister, a member of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia and a professor of religion ...
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Brown, Sterling Allen 1901–1989PERSONAL: Born May 1, 1901, in Washington, DC; died of leukemia, January 13, 1989, in Takoma Park, MD; son of Sterling Nelson (a writer and professor of religion at Howard University) and Adelaide Allen Brown; married Daisy Turnbull, September, 1927; children: John L. Dennis.
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