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Lula Lowe Weeden was a black ativist poet. Born on February 4, 1918, in Lynchburg, Virginia, Ms. Weeden was one of three daughters. Her mother was named Lula L. Weeden was as well a poet, and her father, was named Dr. Henry P. Weeden, a dentist. At a young age, Ms. Weeden was very fond of poetry, and her mother influenced that by teaching her more about poetry and ways to improve.

At the age of nine, she had composed many poems and even gained some recognition when her poem was published in Countee Cullen’s Caroling Dusk, and even published some poems in the 1927 issue of Opportunity magazine by Cullen.

Unfortunately, Ms. Weeden stopped composing and publishing poems in her teens and stopped writing until her early 20’s when she meet and studied under W.E.B. Du Bois. In letters sent to Irene Diggs, a anthropologist and a close acquaintance of Ms. Weeden, she planned to write a story about W.E.D. Du Bois named “The Man Who Built His Classroom”.

Ms. Weeden would sometimes still prose, but she mostly used her time in forwarding her career in art education. Nevertheless, her poems were anthologized in the U.S. in the 1940s. Sadly Ms. Weeden died in Denver on June 22, 2013.

Some of her poems are:


 * Me Alone
 * Have You Ever Seen It?
 * Robin Red Breast
 * The Stream
 * The Little Dandelion
 * Dance