Clouds and Sunshine

“I hear the talk of the white man’s hope / […] / But never a word of the black man’s hope / Do I hear as time doth roll.” In these poems of identity and love, Fleming proves herself a poet of humanity, in all its shapes and shades. Clouds and Sunshine is a poetry collection by Sarah Lee Brown Fleming.

About the author

Sarah Lee Brown Fleming (1876-1963) was an African American poet, novelist, educator, and activist. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Fleming was raised in Brooklyn, where she would become the school system’s first Black teacher. In 1902, she married Richard Stedman Fleming, a pioneering African American dentist with whom she would raise a son and a daughter. In addition to her work as a teacher, Fleming was a founder of the New Haven’s Women’s Civic League and the Phillis Wheatley Home for Girls. A lifelong advocate for Black girls and women, she received honors and awards from the United States Congress and the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women’s Club. She also published works of literature, including Hope’s Highway: A Novel (1918) and Clouds and Sunshine (1920), a collection of poems.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Lee Brown Fleming, Fleming Sarah Lee Brown
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.05.2021
• EAN: 9781513283081
• ISBN: 978-1-5132-8308-1
• No. of pages: 54
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Series: Mint Editions; Mint Editions—Black Narratives; Mint Editions (Black Narratives); Black Narratives
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Classic fiction (pre c 1945), POETRY / Women Authors, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / General, Poetry by individual poets, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), POETRY / American / African American & Black, Relating to African American / Black American people