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data-file-height="513" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Braithwaite, c. 1911</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">December 6, 1878<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace">Boston, Massachusetts</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">June 8, 1962<span style="display:none">(1962-06-08)</span> (aged 83)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace">New York, New York</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Emma Kelly<sup id="cite_ref-The_New_York_Times_1962_25_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_New_York_Times_1962_25-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">Fiona Rossetti Braithwaite (Carter), Katherine Keats Braithwaite (Arnold), Cayman Braithwaite (Agard). William Stanley Beaumont Braithwaite, Jr., Paul Ledoux Braithwaite, Arnold D. Braithwaite.<sup id="cite_ref-The_New_York_Times_1962_25_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_New_York_Times_1962_25-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>William Stanley Beaumont Braithwaite</b> (December 6, 1878 – June 8, 1962) was an African-American <a href="/wiki/Writer" title="Writer">writer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Poet" title="Poet">poet</a>, <a href="/wiki/Literary_critic" class="mw-redirect" title="Literary critic">literary critic</a>, anthologist, and publisher in the United States. His work as a critic and anthologist was widely praised and important in the development of East Coast poetry styles in the early 20th century. He was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Spingarn_Medal" title="Spingarn Medal">Spingarn Medal</a> in 1918. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Stanley_Braithwaite&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Braithwaite was born in <a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a>, Massachusetts, in 1878.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to <a href="/wiki/Jill_Lepore" title="Jill Lepore">Jill Lepore</a>, his father "came from a wealthy <a href="/wiki/British_Guiana" title="British Guiana">British Guiana</a> family; his mother was the daughter of a <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a> slave."<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His father preferred that the children be educated at home, and until his untimely death, they were raised in a genteel household of means. Braithwaite married Emma Kelly in 1903; they had seven children. He died at his home at 409 Edgecombe Avenue in Harlem after a brief illness on June 8, 1962.<sup id="cite_ref-The_New_York_Times_1962_25_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_New_York_Times_1962_25-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Stanley_Braithwaite&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>At the age of 12, upon the death of his father, Braithwaite was forced to quit school to support his family. When he was aged 15 he was apprenticed to a typesetter for the Boston <a href="/wiki/Publisher" class="mw-redirect" title="Publisher">publisher</a>, Ginn & Co.,<sup id="cite_ref-:3_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> where he discovered an affinity for lyric poetry and began to write his own poems. After early publications in periodicals, he published his first collection of 63 poems, <i>Lyrics of Life and Love</i>, at the age of 26 in 1904.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From 1901 to 1902, Braithwaite served as an editor of the Boston-published <i><a href="/wiki/The_Colored_American_Magazine" title="The Colored American Magazine">The Colored American Magazine</a></i>. By 1906 he had been accepted as a member of the prestigious Boston Authors Club.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From 1905<sup id="cite_ref-:0_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to 1931 he wrote for the <i><a href="/wiki/Boston_Evening_Transcript" title="Boston Evening Transcript">Boston Evening Transcript</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> contributing columns about contemporary poets and an annual survey of the field. He also wrote articles, reviews and poetry for many other periodicals and journals, including the <i><a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Monthly" class="mw-redirect" title="Atlantic Monthly">Atlantic Monthly</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Nation" title="The Nation">The Nation</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Republic" title="The New Republic">The New Republic</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Crisis" title="The Crisis">The Crisis</a></i>, <i>Opportunity</i>, and <i>The Colored American Magazine</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also began publishing anthologies on poetry of various periods, such as the Georgian and Elizabethan eras.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Annual_anthologies">Annual anthologies</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Stanley_Braithwaite&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Annual anthologies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The surveys that Braithwaite published in the <i>Boston Evening Transcript</i> led him to begin his most important life work: publishing an annual anthology of "Magazine Verse".<sup id="cite_ref-:0_5-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These anthologies covered a wide range of poets, from the conservative to the avant-garde, the established to the new, as well as an introduction in which Braithwaite discussed his perspective on the current state of poetry.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_5-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The works published were culled from both commercial magazines and modernist <a href="/wiki/Little_magazines" class="mw-redirect" title="Little magazines">little magazines</a>. They also included indexes of published verse and other information that provided insight into publishing trends of the day.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_5-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Braithwaite indicated favored works in these lists with an asterisk, establishing in this way his own "canon" of poets and poems.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_5-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Though Braithwaite has been received with ambivalence by African-American critics from his own lifetime to today for his lack of discussion of African-American issues in both his verse and anthologies, his anthologies are notable for their inclusion of African-American writers.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_5-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The success and influence of Braithwaite's anthology series may be seen in its growing length: the first was 87 pages in length, while the 15th reached more than 1,000.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_5-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Though influential, however, the anthologies were not moneymakers; they were published by five different houses over the years, and unlike some anthologies of the time, did not receive payment for including a poet's work.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Magazine_publishing">Magazine publishing</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Stanley_Braithwaite&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Magazine publishing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Braithwaite launched a periodical, <i>Poetry Journal</i>, in December 1912, but not long after, handed off the project to others.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_5-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He launched another periodical, the monthly <i>Poetry Review of America</i>, in 1916; this project folded after less than a year.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Book_publishing">Book publishing</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Stanley_Braithwaite&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Book publishing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1921 he established the B. J. Brimmer publishing company, which published poetry, non-fiction, and anthologies. His business partner and treasurer of the company was the writer and poet <a href="/w/index.php?title=Winifred_Virginia_Jackson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Winifred Virginia Jackson (page does not exist)">Winifred Virginia Jackson</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-:2_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> known for her collaborations with <a href="/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft" title="H. P. Lovecraft">H. P. Lovecraft</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Professorship_and_retirement">Professorship and retirement</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Stanley_Braithwaite&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Professorship and retirement"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1935, Braithwaite assumed a professorship of creative literature at the <a href="/wiki/Historically_black_colleges_and_universities" title="Historically black colleges and universities">historically black</a> <a href="/wiki/Atlanta_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Atlanta University">Atlanta University</a>. He retired from this position in 1945. In 1946, he and his family moved to <a href="/wiki/Sugar_Hill,_Manhattan" title="Sugar Hill, Manhattan">Sugar Hill</a> in <a href="/wiki/Harlem" title="Harlem">Harlem</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a> where Braithwaite continued to write and publish poetry, essays and anthologies. He was often alienated from his colleagues at the university due to his lack of any formal education or degrees and what was seen as his "standoffish" nature.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Harlem_Renaissance">Harlem Renaissance</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Stanley_Braithwaite&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Harlem Renaissance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Braithwaite is recognized as having a significant role in publishing Harlem Renaissance poets for a wide audience through his anthologies, despite his own conservatism in discussing race in his own work. In 1927, the poet <a href="/wiki/Countee_Cullen" title="Countee Cullen">Countee Cullen</a> dedicated the anthology <i><a href="/wiki/Caroling_Dusk" title="Caroling Dusk">Caroling Dusk, An Anthology of Negro Poets</a></i>, to Braithwaite.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_5-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/James_Weldon_Johnson" title="James Weldon Johnson">James Weldon Johnson</a> acknowledged Braithwaite as an influence upon his work.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_5-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works">Works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Stanley_Braithwaite&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Fiction">Fiction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Stanley_Braithwaite&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Fiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>The Canadian</i> (1901) </p><p><i>The Story of the Great War</i> (juvenile; essays), F. A. Stokes, 1919 </p><p><i>Going Over Tindal: A Fragment Wrenched From the Life of Titus Jabson</i> (novel), B. J. Brimmer, 1924 </p><p><i>Frost on the Green Leaf</i> (short stories) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Poetry">Poetry</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Stanley_Braithwaite&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Poetry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Lyrics of Life and Love</i> (Boston: H. B. Turner, 1904)<sup id="cite_ref-:0_5-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>The House of Falling Leaves</i> (Boston: J. W. Luce, 1908)<sup id="cite_ref-:0_5-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Selected Poems</i> (New York: Coward-McCann, 1948) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Non-fiction">Non-fiction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Stanley_Braithwaite&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Non-fiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Preface, V. Stanley Milliken, <i>Songs of the Nomad: Some Posthumous Poems</i> (Providence: Printed by F. H. Townsend, 1907) </p><p>Introduction, Charles Gibson, The Wounded Eros: Sonnets (Cambridge: <a href="/wiki/Riverside_Press" class="mw-redirect" title="Riverside Press">Riverside Press</a>, 1908) </p><p>Preface, <i>The Poetry of Thomas S. Jones, Jr</i> (Clinton, NY: George William Browning, 1910) </p><p>Introduction to Edward Smyth Jones, <i>The Sylvan Cabin: A Centenary Ode on the Birth of Lincoln and Other Verses</i> (Boston: Sherman French, 1911) </p><p><i>The Poetic Year for 1916: A Critical Anthology</i> (Boston: Small, Maynard, 1917) </p><p>Introduction to <a href="/wiki/Georgia_Douglas_Johnson" title="Georgia Douglas Johnson">Georgia Douglas Johnson</a>, <i>The Heart of a Woman: And Other Poems</i> (Boston: Cornhill, 1918) </p><p>Introduction to <a href="/wiki/A._E._Housman" title="A. E. Housman">A. E. Housman</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/A_Shropshire_Lad" title="A Shropshire Lad">A Shropshire Lad</a></i> (Boston: <a href="/wiki/Four_Seas_Company" title="Four Seas Company">Four Seas</a>, 1919) </p><p><i>The Story of the Great War</i> (New York: Frederick Stokes, 1919) </p><p>Introduction to B. 8266, Penitentiary, <i>A Tale of a Walled Town: and Other Verses</i> (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1921) </p><p>Introduction to Brookes More, <i>The Beggar's Vision</i> (Boston: Cornhill, 1921) </p><p>Introduction to J. Corson Miller, <i>Veils of Samite</i> (Boston: Small, Maynard, 1921) </p><p>Forward to Maud Cuney-Hare, <i>The Message of the Trees</i> (Boston: Cornhill, 1921) </p><p><i>John Myers O'Hara and the Grecian Influence</i> (Portland, ME: Smith and Sale, 1926) </p><p>Introduction to Rosa Zagnioni Marinoni and Mary Carolyn Davies, Red Kites and Wooden Crosses (Chicago: Packard, 1929) </p><p>Introduction to Mae Cowdery, WE Lift Our Voices and Other poems (Philadelphia: Alpress, 1936) </p><p>Biographical essay in S. S. Van Dine, <i>Philo Vance Murder Cases</i> (New York, London: Scribner's, 1936) </p><p><i>The Bewitched Parsonage: The Story of the <a href="/wiki/The_Bront%C3%ABs" class="mw-redirect" title="The Brontës">Brontës</a></i>, Coward-McCann, 1950. </p><p><i>The William Stanley Braithwaite Reader</i>, edited by Philip Butcher (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1972) </p><p><i>The House Under Artcthurus</i>. Unfinished autobiography published in part in the periodical <i>Phylon</i> (1941-1942).<sup id="cite_ref-:0_5-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Anthology_editor">Anthology editor</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Stanley_Braithwaite&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Anthology editor"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Book of Elizabethan Verse</i> with an introduction by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Wentworth_Higginson" title="Thomas Wentworth Higginson">Thomas Wentworth Higginson</a> (Boston: Herbert B. Turner, 1906) </p><p><i>Book of Georgian Verse</i> ( London: Grant Richards, 1909) </p><p><i>Book of Restoration Verse</i> (New York: Brentanos and London: Duckworth, 1910) </p><p><i>Anthology of Magazine Verse</i> <i>for 1913: Including the Magazines and the Poets: A Review</i> (Cambridge, MA: W.S. B., 1913) </p><p><i>Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1914: And Year Book of American Poetry</i> (Cambridge, MA: W.S. B., 1914) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=emu.010001217018&view=1up&seq=1&skin=2021"><i>Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1914</i> via HathiTrust</a> </p><p><i>Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1915: and Year Book of American Poetry</i> (New York: Gomme and Marshall, 1915) </p><p><i>Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1916 and Year Book of American Poetry</i> </p><p>With Henry Thomas Schnittkind, <i>Representative American Poetry</i> (Boston: R. G. Badger, 1916) </p><p><i>Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1917 and Yearbook of American Poetry</i> (Boston: Small, Maynard, 1917) </p><p><i>Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1918 and Year Book of American Poetry</i> (Boston: Small, Maynard, 1918) </p><p><i>The Golden Treasury of Magazine Verse</i> (Boston: Small, Maynard and London: G. Harrap, 1918) </p><p><i>Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1919: And Year Book of American Poetry</i> (Boston: Small, Maynard, 1919) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3035226&view=1up&seq=7&skin=2021"><i>Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1919</i> via HathiTrust</a> </p><p><i>The Book of Modern British Verse,</i> (Boston: Small, Maynard, 1919) </p><p><i>Victory! Celebrated by Thirty-Eight American Poets</i>, introduction by Theodore Roosevelt (Boston: Small, Maynard, 1919) </p><p><i>Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920: And Year Book of American Poetry</i> (Boston: Small, Maynard, 1920) </p><p><i>Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1921: And Year Book of American Poetry</i> (Cambridge, Mass: W.S. Braithwaite, 1921) </p><p><i>Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1922: And Year Book of American Poetry</i> </p><p><i>Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1923: And Year Book of American Poetry</i> (Boston: B. J. Brimmer, 1923) </p><p><i>Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1924: And Year Book of American Poetry</i> </p><p><i>Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1925: And Year Book of American Poetry</i> </p><p><i>Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1926: And Year Book of American Poetry</i> </p><p><i>Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1927: And Year Book of American Poetry</i> (Cambridge, MA: W.S. Braithwaite, 1927) </p><p><i>Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1928: And Yearbook of American Poetry (New York: Harold Vinal, 1928)</i> </p><p><i>Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1929: And Yearbook of American Poetry</i> </p><p><i>Our Lady's Choir: A Contemporary Anthology of Verse by Catholic Sisters,</i> foreword by Hugh Francis Blunt, introduction by Ralph Adams Cram (Boston: Bruce Humphries, 1931) </p><p>Anthology of American Verse for 1958 with Margaret Haley Carpenter (New York: Schulte Publishing Company, 1958) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Magazine_editor">Magazine editor</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Stanley_Braithwaite&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Magazine editor"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Poetry Journal</i>, published at the <a href="/wiki/Four_Seas_Company" title="Four Seas Company">Four Seas Company</a> (1912-1914)<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>The Citizen</i> (Boston, 1915) </p><p><i>Stratford Monthly</i>: <i>A Forum of Contemporary International Thought</i> (1916) </p><p><i>Poetry Review of America</i> (1916-1917)<sup id="cite_ref-:1_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Selected_anthology_appearances">Selected anthology appearances</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Stanley_Braithwaite&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Selected anthology appearances"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In Alain Locke, <i>The New Negro</i> (1925) </p><p>In James Weldon Johnson, <i>The Book of American Negro Poetry</i> (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1931) </p><p>In <i>Menckeniana: A Schimpflexicon</i> (New York: Knopf, 1929) </p><p>In Langston Hughes and Arno Bontemps, <i>The Poetry of the Negro, 1746-1949</i> (Garden City: Doubleday, 1949) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards">Awards</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Stanley_Braithwaite&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1918 he was awarded the Spingarn Medal by the <a href="/wiki/National_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Colored_People" class="mw-redirect" title="National Association for the Advancement of Colored People">National Association for the Advancement of Colored People</a> (NAACP).<sup id="cite_ref-The_New_York_Times_1962_25_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_New_York_Times_1962_25-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Archives">Archives</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Stanley_Braithwaite&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Archives"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Albert_and_Shirley_Small_Special_Collections_Library" title="Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library">Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library</a> at the University of Virginia holds 40 boxes of manuscripts, correspondence, and other related materials related mainly to this editorial work, in three separate Braithwaite collections. </p><p>Harvard University's <a href="/wiki/Houghton_Library" title="Houghton Library">Houghton Library</a> holds a 30-box collection comprising mostly letters from poets to Braithwaite.<sup id="cite_ref-11" 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Williams">William T. B. Williams</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1935: <a href="/wiki/Mary_McLeod_Bethune" title="Mary McLeod Bethune">Mary McLeod Bethune</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1936: <a href="/wiki/John_Hope_(educator)" title="John Hope (educator)">John Hope</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1937: <a href="/wiki/Walter_Francis_White" class="mw-redirect" title="Walter Francis White">Walter Francis White</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1938: <i>no award</i></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1939: <a href="/wiki/Marian_Anderson" title="Marian Anderson">Marian Anderson</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1940: <a href="/wiki/Louis_T._Wright" title="Louis T. Wright">Louis T. Wright</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1941: <a href="/wiki/Richard_Wright_(author)" title="Richard Wright (author)">Richard Wright</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1942: <a href="/wiki/A._Philip_Randolph" title="A. Philip Randolph">A. 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Drew</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1945: <a href="/wiki/Paul_Robeson" title="Paul Robeson">Paul Robeson</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1946: <a href="/wiki/Thurgood_Marshall" title="Thurgood Marshall">Thurgood Marshall</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1947: <a href="/wiki/Percy_Lavon_Julian" title="Percy Lavon Julian">Percy Lavon Julian</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1948: <a href="/wiki/Channing_Heggie_Tobias" title="Channing Heggie Tobias">Channing Heggie Tobias</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1949: <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Bunche" title="Ralph Bunche">Ralph Bunche</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1950: <a href="/wiki/Charles_Hamilton_Houston" title="Charles Hamilton Houston">Charles Hamilton Houston</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1951: <a href="/wiki/Mabel_Keaton_Staupers" title="Mabel Keaton Staupers">Mabel Keaton Staupers</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1952: <a href="/wiki/Harry_T._Moore" title="Harry T. Moore">Harry T. Moore</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1953: <a href="/wiki/Paul_R._Williams" title="Paul R. Williams">Paul R. Williams</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1954: <a href="/wiki/Theodore_K._Lawless" title="Theodore K. Lawless">Theodore K. Lawless</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1955: <a href="/wiki/Carl_J._Murphy" title="Carl J. Murphy">Carl J. Murphy</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1956: <a href="/wiki/Jackie_Robinson" title="Jackie Robinson">Jackie Robinson</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1957: <a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr." title="Martin Luther King Jr.">Martin Luther King Jr.</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1958: <a href="/wiki/Daisy_Bates_(activist)" title="Daisy Bates (activist)">Daisy Bates</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Little_Rock_Nine" title="Little Rock Nine">Little Rock Nine</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1959: <a href="/wiki/Duke_Ellington" title="Duke Ellington">Duke Ellington</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1960: <a href="/wiki/Langston_Hughes" title="Langston Hughes">Langston Hughes</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1961: <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_B._Clark" class="mw-redirect" title="Kenneth B. Clark">Kenneth B. Clark</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1962: <a href="/wiki/Robert_C._Weaver" title="Robert C. Weaver">Robert C. Weaver</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1963: <a href="/wiki/Medgar_Evers" title="Medgar Evers">Medgar Evers</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1964: <a href="/wiki/Roy_Wilkins" title="Roy Wilkins">Roy Wilkins</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1965: <a href="/wiki/Leontyne_Price" title="Leontyne Price">Leontyne Price</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1966: <a href="/wiki/John_H._Johnson" title="John H. Johnson">John H. Johnson</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1967: <a href="/wiki/Edward_Brooke" title="Edward Brooke">Edward Brooke</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1968: <a href="/wiki/Sammy_Davis_Jr." title="Sammy Davis Jr.">Sammy Davis Jr.</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1969: <a href="/wiki/Clarence_Mitchell_Jr." title="Clarence Mitchell Jr.">Clarence Mitchell Jr.</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1970: <a href="/wiki/Jacob_Lawrence" title="Jacob Lawrence">Jacob Lawrence</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1971: <a href="/wiki/Leon_Sullivan" title="Leon Sullivan">Leon Sullivan</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1972: <a href="/wiki/Gordon_Parks" title="Gordon Parks">Gordon Parks</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1973: <a href="/wiki/Wilson_Riles" title="Wilson Riles">Wilson Riles</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1974: <a href="/wiki/Damon_Keith" title="Damon Keith">Damon Keith</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1975: <i>no award</i></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1976: <a href="/wiki/Hank_Aaron" title="Hank Aaron">Hank Aaron</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1977: <a href="/wiki/Alvin_Ailey" title="Alvin Ailey">Alvin Ailey</a> and <a href="/wiki/Alex_Haley" title="Alex Haley">Alex Haley</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1978: <i>no award</i></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1979: <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Young" title="Andrew Young">Andrew Young</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rosa_Parks" title="Rosa Parks">Rosa Parks</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1980: <a href="/wiki/Rayford_Logan" title="Rayford Logan">Rayford Logan</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1981: <a href="/wiki/Coleman_Young" title="Coleman Young">Coleman Young</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1982: <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Mays" title="Benjamin Mays">Benjamin Elijah Mays</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1983: <a href="/wiki/Lena_Horne" title="Lena Horne">Lena Horne</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1984: <i>no award</i></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1985: <a href="/wiki/Tom_Bradley_(American_politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tom Bradley (American politician)">Tom Bradley</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bill_Cosby" title="Bill Cosby">Bill Cosby</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1986: <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Hooks" title="Benjamin Hooks">Benjamin Hooks</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1987: <a href="/wiki/Percy_Sutton" title="Percy Sutton">Percy Sutton</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1988: <a href="/wiki/Frederick_D._Patterson" title="Frederick D. Patterson">Frederick D. Patterson</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1989: <a href="/wiki/Jesse_Jackson" title="Jesse Jackson">Jesse Jackson</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1990: <a href="/wiki/Douglas_Wilder" title="Douglas Wilder">Douglas Wilder</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1991: <a href="/wiki/Colin_Powell" title="Colin Powell">Colin Powell</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1992: <a href="/wiki/Barbara_Jordan" title="Barbara Jordan">Barbara Jordan</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1993: <a href="/wiki/Dorothy_Height" title="Dorothy Height">Dorothy Height</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1994: <a href="/wiki/Maya_Angelou" title="Maya Angelou">Maya Angelou</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1995: <a href="/wiki/John_Hope_Franklin" title="John Hope Franklin">John Hope Franklin</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1996: <a href="/wiki/A._Leon_Higginbotham_Jr." title="A. Leon Higginbotham Jr.">A. 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