Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems on Man (19 Poems)

The Eutawville Lynching (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)

(July, 1904) In the State of “Old Palmetto,” from the town of Eutawville,Comes a voice of pain and anguish that refuses to be still.‘Tis a voice that cries for vengeance for the wrongs it has received,Yea, it asks a nation’s … Continue reading →

Lynching (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)

Have you ever heard of lynching in the great United States?‘Tis an awful, awful story that the Negro man relates,How the mobs the laws have trampled, both the human and divine,In their killing helpless people as their cruel hearts incline. … Continue reading →

Injustice of the Courts (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)

Whites alone upon the jury in a number of the states,Thus they crush a helpless Negro with their prejudicial hates;Legal ills they thrust upon him, and the tale is passing sad-Equal rights with white men? Never! Color-phobia makes them mad. … Continue reading →

Immorality (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)

Have you heard, my friend, the slander that the Negro has to face?Immorality, the grossest, has been charged up to his race.Listen, listen to my story, as I now proceed to tellOf conditions in the Southland, where the mass of … Continue reading →

The Negro Ballot (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)

Can America be reckoned as the country of the free?In the light of recent actions ’tis a truth that’s hard to see.It has taken from the Negro his protection, yea, his vote,How oppressive is the finger that such cruel mandates … Continue reading →

Negro Heroines (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)

Down in history we find it and in grandest works of art,How the men on fields of battle play so well the soldier’s part,But I come to tell the story of relief from care and painRendered them by Negro women … Continue reading →

A Legal Mouse (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)

A lawyer had a legal mouse,A naughty one they say,That took possession of his houseAnd papers ev’ry day, His books and records it would gnaw,Without regard for loss,Its disrespect and lack of aweJust kept the owner cross. When no revenge … Continue reading →

The Peonage System (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)

The religious wars of Europe have been numbered with the past,But a worse thing, bright America with clouds has overcast,‘Tis the heinous contract system that plantation life contains,Worse than slavery’s conditions in a land where freedom reigns. Negroes forced in … Continue reading →

Prejudice (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)

How strangely blind is prejudice, the Negro’s greatest foe!It never fails to see the wrong but naught of good can know.‘Tis blind to all that’s lofty, yea, to truth it is opposed,Degrading things will ope his eyes, while good will … Continue reading →

The Crum Appointment (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)

You, no doubt, have heard the story told of Charleston by the sea,How they persecute a Negro when a man he tries to be,‘Tis of national importance and the world enjoys the sport,Caused by William Crum’s appointment as collector of … Continue reading →