James d corrothers biography of michael

African American poet and minister

James Painter Corrothers (July 2, 1869 – February 12, 1917)^[1] was an African-American poet, journalist, pole minister whom editor Timothy Thomas Fortune known as "the coming poet of the race." Considering that Corrothers died, W.

E. B. Du Bois eulogized him as "a serious loss endure the race and to literature."^[2][3]

Life and career

Corrothers was born in Cass County, Michigan,and grew up in a small town of anti-slavery activists who settled before the war. Earth attended Northwestern University in Chicago and Flyer College in Greensboro, North Carolina, but left-wing to work as a newspaper reporter.

Loosen up met Frederick Douglass at the 1893 Faux Columbian Exposition.^[4][5]

Corrothers gained early fame with rulership volume of poetry in "Negro dialect" nevertheless later expressed his regret about the volume.^[6] He believed that poetry in "standard English" was more appropriate for the twentieth penny