In Flaming Letters Lucia Pitts, Poet of the Six Triple Eight【電子書籍】[ Lucia Pitts ]

＜p＞＜strong＞A treasury of poetry and prose from an unsung trailblazer of Black literature＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Lucia M. Pitts (1904?1973) was an African American writer and Army veteran whose story has never been told. Her poetry, including love lyrics of striking sensuality and honesty, was admired by Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Dorothy West. Her work first appeared during the Harlem Renaissance, influenced by Harriet Monroe’s ＜em＞Poetry＜/em＞ magazine and blues singers Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith. A native of Chicago’s Bronzeville, Pitts challenged discrimination and segregation throughout her remarkable life, both as a member of President Franklin Roosevelt’s “Black Cabinet” and as the first African American woman employed at the War Department. Then, in 1943, Pitts joined the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the Army’s only all-Black, all-female battalion, which later received the Congressional Gold Medal.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Pitts’s own account of her service with the Six Triple Eig．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る