Background
Corrothers was born in Michigan and grew up in a small town of anti-slavery activists who settled before the war.
Corrothers was born in Michigan and grew up in a small town of anti-slavery activists who settled before the war.
He attended Northwestern University in Chicago but left to work a newspaper reporter.
He met Frederick Douglass at the 1893 World Columbian ExpositionCorrothers gained early fame with his volume of poetry in "Negro dialect" but later expressed his regret about the volume. Corrothers thought that poetry in "standard English" was more appropriate for the twentieth century. In 1922, James Weldon Johnson published seven poems by Corrothers in the anthology The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922).
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