Robert Thomas Kerlin, Negro Poets and Their Poems
Robert Thomas Kerlin
Negro Poets and Their Poems
1935 edition
Published in Washington, D.C. by a white nascent civil rights activist and Quaker Robert Thomas Kerlin (1866-1950). Ironically he grew up in Kentucky, where his parents were slaveholders. He wrote several publications honoring black poets, writers, and thinkers in several books including this beautifully made book.