Anne Bethel (Bannister) Spencer (1882 - 1975)

Born 6 Feb 1882 in Henry, Virginia, United States

Wife of Edward Alexander Spencer — married 15 May 1901 in Bramwell, Mercer, West Virginia, United States

Descendants

Died 26 Jul 1975 at age 93 in Lynchburg, Virginia, United States

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Biography

Anne (Bannister) Spencer was a part of the Civil Rights Movement.

Anne (Bannister) Spencer is Notable.

Anne (Bannister) Spencer was born in Appalachia, in Virginia. See Appalachia Project.

Anne Spencer was a poet, a civil rights activist, a teacher, librarian, wife and mother, and a gardener.

Anne was born in 1882. She was the daughter of Joel Bannister and Sarah Scales. She passed away in 1975.^[1]

A Guide to the Papers of Anne Spencer and the Spencer Family, 1829, 1864-2007
They had three children, Bethel Calloway, Alroy Sarah, and Chauncey Edward Spencer, and a fourth child who died shortly after birth with diphtheria... ^[2]

Spencer, Anne (1882–1975)
Anne Spencer was a poet, a civil rights activist, a teacher, a librarian, and a gardener. While fewer than thirty of her poems were published in her lifetime, she was an important figure of the black literary movement of the 1920s—the Harlem Renaissance—and only the second African American poet to be included in the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry (1973)...^[3]

Anne Bethel Spencer (born Bannister; February 6, 1882 – July 27, 1975) was an American poet, teacher, civil rights activist, librarian, and gardener. While a librarian at the all-black Dunbar High School, a position she held for 20 years, she supplemented the original three books by bringing others from her own collection at home. Though she lived outside New York City, the recognized center of the Harlem Renaissance, also known as the New Negro Movement, she was an important member of this group of intellectuals. She met Edward Spencer while attending Virginia Seminary in Lynchburg, Virginia. Following their marriage in 1901, the couple moved into a house he built at 1313 Pierce Street, where they raised a family and lived for the remainder of their lives...^[4]

ANNE BETHEL SPENCER
Cultural importance:
Anne Spencer was a poet, a civil rights activist, a teacher, librarian, wife and mother, and a gardener.
More than thirty of her poems were published in her lifetime, making her an important figure of the black literary and cultural movement of the 1920s—the Harlem Renaissance—and only the second African American poet to be included in the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry (1973).
Noted for verse preoccupied with biblical and mythological themes, as well as those of her garden and nature, Spencer shared intellectual respect and repartee with such notables as James Weldon Johnson, who first discovered her poetic talents in 1919, Langston Hughes, W.E.B. DuBois, Countee Cullen, Sterling A. Brown, Marian Anderson, Paul Robeson, Thurgood Marshall, Zora Neal Hurston, Mary McLeod Bethune, Adam Clayton Powell, Claude McKay, George Washington Carver, H.L. Mencken, Amaza Lee Meredith, Gwendolyn Brooks, and the Rev. Martin Luther King...^[5]

Q6 20, The Anne Spencer House, 1818 Pierce Street, Lynchburg, Virginia
This was the home of Edward Alexander and Anne Bannister Spencer from 1903 until her death on July 25, 1975. Born on February 6, 1882, in Henry County, Va. Anne Spencer was to receive national and international recognition as a poet. Published extensively between 1920 and 1935, she belonged to the Harlem Renaissance school of writers.^[6]

Anne Spencer Poems^[7]

Postage stamp commemorates life of Henry County native and poet Anne Spencer
Harlem Renaissance poet and civil rights activist born in Henry County is being honored on a forever stamp that the U.S. Postal Service began issuing last week...^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L181-L67
2. ↑ https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu04082.xml;query=
3. ↑ https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/spencer-anne-1882-1975/
4. ↑ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Spencer
5. ↑ http://www.annespencermuseum.org/ Anne Spencer Museum
6. ↑ https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=74009 Historical Markers
7. ↑ https://mypoeticside.com/poets/anne-spencer-poems Poems
8. ↑ https://martinsvillebulletin.com/lifestyles/features/postage-stamp-commemorates-life-of-henry-county-native-and-poet-anne-spencer/article_f7f58c68-4819-5a30-baa9-bf99f439a18c.html Forever Postage Stamp

• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9ZM-19P : accessed 11 November 2021), Annie Scales in household of William Dixie, Rock district (west side) Bramwell town, Mercer, West Virginia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 85, sheet 15B, family 294, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,766.
• "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V8MC-HXJ : 11 February 2018), Edward A Spencer and Annis B Scales, 1901; citing West Virginia, United States, , county clerks, West Virginia; FHL microfilm 800,736.
• "United States City and Business Directories, ca. 1749 - ca. 1990", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:DDBN-VB6Z : 26 January 2021), Annie B Spencer in entry for Edw A Spencer, 1904.
• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MPLY-VWM : accessed 11 November 2021), Annie B Spencer in household of Edward A Spencer, Lynchburg Ward 3, Lynchburg (Independent City), Virginia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 90, sheet 3B, family 75, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1635; FHL microfilm 1,375,648.
• "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJVM-PMD : 4 February 2021), Annie Spencer in entry for Edward Spencer, 1920.
• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:CHNQ-Z6Z : accessed 11 November 2021), Annie B Spencer in household of Edward A Spencer, Lynchburg, Virginia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 19, sheet 6B, line 63, family 135, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2468; FHL microfilm 2,342,202.
• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VR1Y-TNR : 15 February 2020), Annie B Spencer in household of Eduard A Spencer, Ward 3, Lynchburg, Lynchburg City, Lynchburg City, Virginia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 111-31, sheet 11B, line 56, family 203, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 4309.
• "Virginia, Death Certificates, 1912-1987," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVRZ-G4WR : 16 August 2019), Anne Spencer, 26 Jul 1975; from "Virginia, Marriage Records, 1700-1850," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2012); citing Lynchburg, , Virginia, United States, entry #, Virginia Department of Health, Richmond.
• "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JPFS-257 : 8 January 2021), Annie Spencer, Jul 1975; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7311506/anne-spencer : accessed 11 November 2021), memorial page for Anne Spencer (6 Feb 1882–12 Jul 1975), Find a Grave Memorial ID 7311506, citing Forest Hill Burial Park, Lynchburg, Lynchburg City, Virginia, USA ; Maintained by Find a Grave.

See also:

• Wikipedia: Anne Spencer
• Wikidata: Item Q4121378, en:Wikipedia
• https://www.facebook.com/AnneSpencerMuseum
• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=anne+spencer+poet
• Memorial Day Tribute to Tuskegee Airmen: Chauncey Spencer (https://youtu.be/GiddITT406g)
• Chauncey Spencer AAA Travel Museum (https://youtu.be/soF4o-R7QWw)