Clarissa Scott Delany was an African-American poet, essayist, educator, and social worker associated with the Harlem Renaissance. She was born and grew up in Tuskegee, Alabama, and educated at Bradford Academy and Wellesley College, joining Delta Sigma Theta and graduating with Phi Beta Kappa honors in 1923. After traveling in France and Germany, she taught for three years at Dunbar High School in Washington, DC. While in Washington, she attended Georgia Douglas Johnson's literary salon, the Saturday Nighters Club.
Scott's four published poems are unusual in that she did not discuss specific struggles, but spoke more allegorically. Her work was positively received by Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Angeline Weld Grimké, and W. E. B. Du Bois.
In 1926, Scott married attorney Hubert Thomas Delany, and they moved to New York City. She worked as a social worker, collecting statistics for a "Study of Delinquent and Neglected Negro Children" in New York City with the National Urban League and the Women's City Club. In 1927 she died of kidney disease, after experiencing six months of a streptococcal infection.
Poems
"Solace" in Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, 1925
"Joy" in Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, 1926
"The Mask" in Palms, 1926
"Interim" in Countee Cullen, ed., Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, 1927
Daughter of Dr. Emmett J. Scott, secretary to Booker T. Washington, and Mrs. Elenora Baker Scott.
Wife of Hubert T. Delany.
Scott's four published poems are unusual in that she did not discuss specific struggles, but spoke more allegorically. Her work was positively received by Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Angeline Weld Grimké, and W. E. B. Du Bois.
In 1926, Scott married attorney Hubert Thomas Delany, and they moved to New York City. She worked as a social worker, collecting statistics for a "Study of Delinquent and Neglected Negro Children" in New York City with the National Urban League and the Women's City Club. In 1927 she died of kidney disease, after experiencing six months of a streptococcal infection.
Poems
"Solace" in Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, 1925
"Joy" in Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, 1926
"The Mask" in Palms, 1926
"Interim" in Countee Cullen, ed., Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, 1927
Daughter of Dr. Emmett J. Scott, secretary to Booker T. Washington, and Mrs. Elenora Baker Scott.
Wife of Hubert T. Delany.
Clarissa Scott Delany was an African-American poet, essayist, educator, and social worker associated with the Harlem Renaissance. She was born and grew up in Tuskegee, Alabama, and educated at Bradford Academy and Wellesley College, joining Delta Sigma Theta and graduating with Phi Beta Kappa honors in 1923. After traveling in France and Germany, she taught for three years at Dunbar High School in Washington, DC. While in Washington, she attended Georgia Douglas Johnson's literary salon, the Saturday Nighters Club.
Scott's four published poems are unusual in that she did not discuss specific struggles, but spoke more allegorically. Her work was positively received by Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Angeline Weld Grimké, and W. E. B. Du Bois.
In 1926, Scott married attorney Hubert Thomas Delany, and they moved to New York City. She worked as a social worker, collecting statistics for a "Study of Delinquent and Neglected Negro Children" in New York City with the National Urban League and the Women's City Club. In 1927 she died of kidney disease, after experiencing six months of a streptococcal infection.
Poems
"Solace" in Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, 1925
"Joy" in Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, 1926
"The Mask" in Palms, 1926
"Interim" in Countee Cullen, ed., Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, 1927
Daughter of Dr. Emmett J. Scott, secretary to Booker T. Washington, and Mrs. Elenora Baker Scott.
Wife of Hubert T. Delany.
Scott's four published poems are unusual in that she did not discuss specific struggles, but spoke more allegorically. Her work was positively received by Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Angeline Weld Grimké, and W. E. B. Du Bois.
In 1926, Scott married attorney Hubert Thomas Delany, and they moved to New York City. She worked as a social worker, collecting statistics for a "Study of Delinquent and Neglected Negro Children" in New York City with the National Urban League and the Women's City Club. In 1927 she died of kidney disease, after experiencing six months of a streptococcal infection.
Poems
"Solace" in Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, 1925
"Joy" in Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, 1926
"The Mask" in Palms, 1926
"Interim" in Countee Cullen, ed., Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, 1927
Daughter of Dr. Emmett J. Scott, secretary to Booker T. Washington, and Mrs. Elenora Baker Scott.
Wife of Hubert T. Delany.
Gravesite Details
Originally buried in the old Columbian Harmony Cemetery in Washington, DC, but believed to have been re-interred, with about 37,000 others, in the National Harmony Memorial Park in Prince George's County, Maryland, in 1960.
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