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Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer

I lived from 1861-unknown.

Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer may not be the most polished of African-American poets; but she was undoubtedly the most courageous. In her poems, she denounced lynching, discrimination, and Jim Crow: not in veiled language, but in poems actually titled "Lynching," "Jim Crow" and "Discrimination." While other black poets sought escape through their poetry, she confronted head-on the worst social ills of American society and then seemingly disappeared.

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  • Birthday Wishes to a Physician
    Birthday greetings
    From a friend,
    42 lines
  • Jim Crow Cars
    If within the cruel Southland you have chanced to take a ride,
    You the Jim Crow cars have noticed, how they crush a Negro's pride,
    39 lines
  • Lynching
    Have you ever heard of lynching in the great United States?
    'Tis an awful, awful story that the Negro man relates,
    73 lines
  • Prejudice
    How strangely blind is prejudice, the Negro's greatest foe!
    It never fails to see the wrong but naught of good can know.
    41 lines
  • Retribution
    When Egypt said, "Exterminate
    The males among the Jews,
    68 lines, 1 comment
  • Thanksgiving
    Let us give thanks to God above,
    Thanks for expressions of His love,
    24 lines
  • Loyalty to the Flag
    In the love of home and country and the flag of Uncle Sam,
    Can the loyalty be doubted of a dusky son of Ham?
    53 lines
  • The Voice of the Negro
    All ye nations, pause a moment! listen to the Negro's voice,
    Coming up from all vocations where his life has made a choice!
    24 lines
  • A Legal Mouse
    A lawyer had a legal mouse,
    A naughty one they say,
    98 lines
  • Negro Heroines
    Down in history we find it and in grandest works of art,
    How the men on fields of battle play so well the soldier's part,
    53 lines
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