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	Sterling A. Brown's Life and Career
		Brown and others shared the view that "art is a handmaiden to social policy." Although a staunch believer in the promises of the Constitution, Brown was aware that such provisions as the infamous "three-fifths compromise" began a lengthy list of stumbling blocks to achieving life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
		Brown, Sterling Allen (1 May 1901-13 Jan. 1989), professor of English, poet, and essayist, was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Sterling Nelson Brown, a minister and divinity school professor, and Adelaide Allen.
		Brown's three years at Virginia Seminary represent much more than the beginning of his teaching career, for it was there that he began to immerse himself in the folkways of rural fl people, absorbing their stories, music, and idioms.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/a_f/brown/life.htm (2465 words)

	Sterling Allen Brown - The Black Renaissance in Washington, DC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Sterling Allen Brown was born on May 1, 1901 on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D. He was the only son and the youngest of six children born to a former slave, Sterling Nelson Brown and Adelaide Allen.
		Brown attended Dunbar High School where he was taught by Haley Douglass, grandson of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, and Jessie Redmon Fauset, the novelist and founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
		Brown was popular with his students and he began to invite students to his home to listen to blues and jazz and to read poetry that was not a part of the college’s English curriculum.
	www.dclibrary.org /blkren/bios/brownsa.html (604 words)

	Library System - Howard University: Development: Sterling A. Brown
		Sterling Allen Brown (1901-1989), author, critic, professor, Poet Laureate for Washington, DC, and "the Dean of American Poets," was born on Howard University's campus at the site where Cook Hall Dormitory now stands.
		Sterling Brown joined the Howard University faculty in 1929 and remained associated with Howard for almost sixty years.
		"Sterling Brown : Outsider in the Harlem Renaissance." The Harlem Renaissance Revaluation.
	www.howard.edu /library/sterlingbrown.htm (1146 words)

	Sterling Brown
		In an interview regarding Sterling Brown, Sonia Sanchez said, "It is amazing," [the pre-emptive phrase she is famous for when discussing a Black man or woman whose contribution to society has been superb], the dignity of this man who understood fl people" (Anthem, 1998).
		Sterling Allen Brown was born into the fl middle class May 1, 1901, in Washington, D.C. The last of six children, he was the only son born to ex-slave, Reverend Sterling Nelson Brown, writer and professor of Religion at Howard University, and Adelaide Allen Brown, a graduate of Fisk University.
		Brown’s love for fl culture compelled him to respond to the misgivings of whites in America who, with their stereotypes and insults, considered fls to be nothing more than a group of dancers and singers.
	www.bsu.edu /web/gstrecker/PoetryProject/sterlingbrown.htm (1262 words)

	Sterling Brown
		Brown and Langston Hughes were my cornerstones as the Black Arts Movement introduced me to Amiri Baraka, Don L. Lee (Haki Madhubuti), Carolyn Rogers, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez and Norman Jordan.
		Sterling Brown was widely loved, especially by former students.
		In 1984, Grace Cavalieri, James Early and I were instrumental in the awarding of Sterling Brown the first Poet Laureate of Washington, D.C. This was not difficult due to Mayor Marion Barry's knowledge and appreciation of Brown's work.
	washingtonart.com /beltway/brown.html (1100 words)

	Sterling Brown Gala Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		To properly celebrate the life and works of Sterling Brown '22, the weekend began with a student poetry contest organized by the Sterling Brown Event Committee at Paul Dunbar High School in Northwest Washington, D.C. All of the students who participated wrote marvelous poems.
		On Saturday October 25, Williams alums and friends and students of Sterling Brown met at The Charles Sumner School Museum on M Street N.W. for a symposium entitled "The Life and Work of Sterling Brown." Speaking at this event were Paula Giddings, Wahneema Lubiano, and Sterling Stuckey.
		Brown then attended Williams College on a scholarship offered by Williams to the Dunbar valedectorian each year.
	wso.williams.edu:8000 /alums/dc/brown/brown1.html (597 words)

	Sterling A. Brown's Life and Career
		terling Allen Brown was born on May 1901 into some have called the "smug" or even "affected" respectability of Washington’s African American middle cliss.
		At Harvard University from 1922 to 1923, Brown took an MA degree in English.
		Brown's frequent allusions to Black folk heroes such as John Henry, Stackolee, and Casey Jones also raised ordinary experience to mythic proportions.
	www.usm.maine.edu /~jkuenz/391/brownlife.htm (1088 words)

	Sterling Brown
		Sterling Brown and the 'vestiges' of the blues: the role of race in English verse structure, in MELUS, Spring, 1996
		Sterling Brown Articles Indexed in the MLA International Bibliography, an extensive list of articles that provides full details and is actively maintained, from the Randolph Fisher newsletter
		An extensive secondary bibliography for Sterling Brown from the Bibliography Committee of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature, briefly annotated
	www.literaryhistory.com /20thC/BrownS.htm (345 words)

	PAL: SterlingBrown (1901-1989)
		Manson, Michael T. "Sterling Brown and the 'Vestiges' of the Blues: The Role of Race in English Verse Structure." MELUS 21.1 (Sprg 1996): 21-40.
		"The Literary Ballads of Sterling A. Brown." CLAJ 32.4 (Jun 1989): 393-409.
		Stepto, Robert B. "Sterling A. Brown Outsider in the Harlem Renaissance." The Harlem Renaissance Revaluations.
	www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap9/brown_sterling.html (841 words)

	Events
		This Web page, a collaborative effort of The Founders Library, the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, and the English department at Howard University, is being developed as a resourceful site and gateway to information on the life and work of professor Sterling Brown.
		Professor Brown entered graduate school and received his Master's degree from Harvard University in 1923.
		Brown exposed the shortcomings of white literature that stereotyped fls and demonstrated why fl authors are best suited to describe the Negro experience.
	www.founders.howard.edu /event1.html (1141 words)

	ABC-Dir: Brown
		The Brown Concert Agency has brought music performances to Brown University and hosted hundreds of performers from James Brown to...
		Curtis Brown representing authors, playwrights, film and television writers and directors, theatre directors and designers, television and radio presenters and...
		Brown is a licensed physician practicing Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
	www.abc-directory.com /view/brown (232 words)

	African Diaspora
		La obra de Sterling Allen Brown en Espanol y su lugar en la poesia de la Diaspora Africana.
		This study evaluates the poetry of Sterling Allen Brown, who wrote primarily of rural African-Americans in the early twentieth century, and discusses translation of Brown's work into Spanish.
		Brown's use of irony, tall tales, stoicism, and humor are explored in their Spanish translations and compared to Afro-Hispanic poetry.
	mendota.english.wisc.edu /~danky/diaspora/afdbrazil.html (519 words)

	Brown,Sterling Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Arguably the greatest African-American poet of the century, and one of the most important American poets, Sterling A. Brown was a contemporary of Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Jean Toomer; as a part of this group, and individually, he has been instrumental in bringing the traditions of African-American folklife to readers all over the world.
		Essays on African-American politics, literature and music by Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989), which point out the biases against fl Americans in white cultural expression and argue for a recognition of the cultural contributions of African Americans.
		Sam Bombel shoots a goose and brings it home for his wife to cook for dinner, but when it is set on the table, the other geese come to reclaim it.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Brown,Sterling (365 words)

	STERLING BROWN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Brown was the last of six children born to Reverend Sterling Nelson and Adelaid Allen Brown.
		According to literary critic Joanne V. Gabbin, "During the 1930s and 1940s, Brown's studies of the folk experience and culture were the fullest of any in the field."
		In his book, The Negro in American Fiction (1937), Brown shows parallels of how treatment of an oppressed group in literature reflects its treatment in life.
	www.nathanielturner.com /sterlingbrown.htm (602 words)

	Sterling Brown: maker of community in academia African American Review - Find Articles
		Sterling Brown: maker of community in academia African American Review - Find Articles
		But her most important work, from my perspective, was her sociological studies done with Charles Spurgeon Johnson at Fisk University, which resulted in an unpublished manuscript of ex-slave interviews that predates the Works Progress Administration interviews.
		Egypt, I was introduced to Sterling Allen Brown, the maker of community in academia.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2838/is_n3_v31/ai_20418528 (420 words)

	Brown (1976) Sterling A. Brown: A UMUM tribute
		Brown (1976) Sterling A. Brown: A UMUM tribute
		Afro-Americans; Intellectual life; Brown, Sterling Allen; Criticism and interpretation
		To view the the latter's ratings, click on Chapters/Papers/Articles in the STATISTICS box, select a publication from the list that appears, and then click on either Quality or Interest in that publication's STATISTICS box.
	www.getcited.org /?PUB=101704595&showStat=Ratings (82 words)

	Sterling Brown gives Christian an assignment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		From these we will do sketches for the book.
		According to literary critic Joanne V. Gabbien, "During the 1930s and 1940s, Brown's studies of the folk experience and culture were the fullest of any in the field."
		Brown, Sterling A. "A Century of Negro Portraiture in American Literature."Massachusetts Review 7 (1966): 73-96.
	www.nathanielturner.com /sterlingbrownchristianassign.htm (561 words)

	Michael Harper Bibliography
		PUBLISHED [Providence, R.I. : Brown University Library, 1994] In: BiblioFile.--No. 22 (spring 1994) HAY HARRIS 1-SIZE 1951 H294 M53mr AUTHOR Harper, Michael S. TITLE Mr.
		AUTHOR Brown, Sterling Allen TITLE The collected poems of Sterling A. Brown.
		HAY HARRIS 1926 B8798p 1980 copies 1 & 3 ROCK PS3503.R833 A17 1980 copy 2 AUTHOR Brown, Sterling Allen TITLE The collected poems of Sterling A. Brown.
	www.brown.edu /Facilities/University_Library/exhibits/Harper/Bib.html (814 words)

	Reporting Civil Rights: Reporters and Writers: Sterling A. Brown
		(May 1, 1901-January 13, 1989) Born Sterling Allen Brown in Washington, D.C. Educated at Williams College and at Harvard (M.A., 1923).
		Author of The Negro in American Fiction (1937), Negro Poetry and Drama (1937), A Son's Return: Selected Essays of Sterling A. Brown (1996), and three books of poetry: Southern Road (1932), The Last Ride of Wild Bill and Eleven Narrative Poems (1975), and The Collected Poems of Sterling A. Brown (1980).
		Also see the Manuscript Division of the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University which houses an archive of the papers of Sterling A. Brown.
	www.reportingcivilrights.org /authors/bio.jsp?authorId=7 (175 words)

	Sterling A. Brown
		DayPoems: A Seven-Century Poetry Slam * Sterling A. Brown lines of verse * www.daypoems.net * Timothy Bovee, editor
		Mangala God of War & Empire, an ongoing and slightly strange satire on America's Mesopotamian misadventures.
		A biography of Sterling A. Brown is also included.
	www.daypoems.net /nodes/451.html (354 words)

	WishList » Blog Archive » (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		chesapeaketruck.com Sterling A. BrownA collection of poems and poem analysis of Harlem Renaissance poet Sterling Allen Brown (1901-1989).A biography of Sterling A. Brown is also included.
		www.lstruck.com Sterling Heights Genealogical and Historical SocietyInformation on publications, officers, events and meetings which are held at the Davis Junior High School in Sterling Heights, Macomb County, Michigan.
		This entry was posted on Monday, May 9th, 2005 at 3:58 am and is filed under General Posting.
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	Biographies of the Harlem Renaissance
		Brown, Sterling: (1) Celebration of Sterling Brown, (2) Sterling Brown, (3) Creative Quotations from.
		Sterling Brown (1901-1989), (4) Sterling Allen Brown (1901-1989) at Perspectives in American Literature, (5) Sterling A. Brown, (6) Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989), (7) Sterling Allen Brown
		Delany, Clarissa M. Scott: (1) Clarissa M. Scott Delany, (2) Charlotte Hawkins Brown and Clarissa M. Scott Delany
	www.42explore2.com /harlem2.htm (1563 words)

	University of Michigan Library Name Resolver Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Bibliographic information is provided to confirm the link.
		Title: Southern road, poems by Sterling A. Brown; drawings by E. Simms Campbell.
		Availability: These pages may be freely searched and displayed.
	name.umdl.umich.edu /ACM6640.0001.001 (41 words)

	Jazz Poetry--printer-friendly
		Gee, brown boy, I loves you all over
		Dance with you, my sweet brown Harlem girl.
		See also: Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues and Langston Hughes reading his Weary Blues poems accompanied by modern jazz music.
	members.cox.net /academia/print.html (1063 words)

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