In Flaming Letters (eBook)

Lucia Pitts, Poet of the Six Triple Eight

Verner D. Mitchell, Cynthia Davis (Herausgeber)

Lucia Pitts (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
203 Seiten
University of Virginia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8139-5407-3 (ISBN)

Infos

A treasury of poetry and prose from an unsung trailblazer of Black literature Lucia M. Pitts (19041973) 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 Poetry 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. Pitts's own account of her service with the Six Triple Eight, however, has remained unpublished until now. This volume brings together a biography of Pitts, her complete military memoir, and one hundred of her finest poems.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.12.2025
• Reihe/Serie: The Black Soldier in War and Society
• Zusatzinfo: 13 b&w, 1 chart
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Birmingham England • Black Chicago • congressional gold medal • Eleanor Roosevelt • Fort Huachuca • Harlem Renaissance • President Roosevelt • tuskegee • World War II
• ISBN-10: 0-8139-5407-X / 081395407X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8139-5407-3 / 9780813954073