James d corrothers biography of rory gilmore
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES.
The following named officer for appointment in the United States Navy to the grade indicated while assigned to a position of importance and.!
James D. Corrothers
African American poet and minister
James David Corrothers (July 2, 1869 – February 12, 1917)[1] was an African-American poet, journalist, and minister whom editor Timothy Thomas Fortune called "the coming poet of the race." When Corrothers died, W.
E. B. Du Bois eulogized him as "a serious loss to 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.
He attended Northwestern University in Chicago and Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina, but left to work as a newspaper reporter. He met Frederick Douglass at the 1893 World Columbian Exposition.[4][5]
Corrothers gained early fame with his volume of poetry in "Negro dialect" but later expressed his regret about the volume.[6] He believed that poetry in "standard English" was more appropriate for the twentieth cent