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Black American writer Anita Scott Coleman published short stories, essays, and poems in leading magazines such as Half-Century Magazine, Crisis, The Messenger.

Her poetry was published in volumes, Small Wisdom (1937) and Reason for Singing (1948).

Coleman wrote dozens of short stories, poems, silent film scenarios, and a children's book, The Singing Bells (1961).

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Anita Scott Coleman (1890 –1960)

"Anita Scott Coleman (1890 –1960)". Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance, edited by Maureen Honey, Ithaca, NY: Rutgers University Press, 2006, pp. 33-47. https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813586205-010

(2006). Anita Scott Coleman (1890 –1960). In M. Honey (Ed.), Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance (pp. 33-47). Ithaca, NY: Rutgers University Press. https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813586205-010

2006. Anita Scott Coleman (1890 –1960). In: Honey, M. ed. Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance. Ithaca, NY: Rutgers University Press, pp. 33-47. https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813586205-010

"Anita Scott Coleman (1890 –1960)" In Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance edited by Maureen Honey, 33-47. Ithaca, NY: Rutgers University Press, 2006. https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813586205-010

Anita Scott Coleman (1890 –1960). In: Honey M (ed.) Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harl

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Anita Scott Coleman facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Anita Scott Coleman
Anita Scott Coleman, from a 1926 publication
Born	November 27, 1890 Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico
Died	March 27, 1960 (aged 69) Los Angeles, California, US
Occupation	Writer

Anita Scott Coleman (November 27, 1890 – March 27, 1960) was an American writer born in Mexico and raised in New Mexico.

Early life

Anita Scott was born in Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico in 1890, the daughter of William Henry Scott and Mary Ann Stokes Scott. Her parents were American; her father was a Buffalo Soldier from Virginia, and her mother was a laundry worker, born under slavery in Florida. She was raised on a ranch near Silver City, New Mexico, where her father worked for the railroad. She trained as a teacher at the New Mexico Teachers College, graduating in 1909.

Career

Coleman wrote dozens of short stories, poems, silent spelfilm scenarios, and a children's book, The Singing Bells (1961). She also wrote a

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Anita Scott Coleman
An important western voice in The Harlem Renaissance, Coleman taught and published more than thirty short stories and poetry, appearing in The Competitor, Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life, and other outlets popular with Harlem Renaissance writers.
Novelist Anita Scott Coleman was an important western voice in the Harlem Renaissance, an early-twentieth-century movement of flourishing social, artistic, and political nyhet among African Americans. The movement, known at the time as the “New Negro Experience,” was at its peak from 1918 to 1937 with continuing influence long after. Named for its symbolic locus in Harlem, this cultural revolution reflected a larger economic and social movement that involved Black communities throughout the United States.
Coleman, an African-American woman who spent much of her childhood and young adult years in Silver City, New Mexico, was among those working outside the metropolitan centers during the