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Walter Moore Coleman
1863–1926
Best remembered as an African American writer and lecturer, he used poetry, essays, and public speaking to address race, education, and social progress in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Beginners' zoology
by Walter Moore Coleman
First course in biology
by L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey, Walter Moore Coleman
About the author
Born in 1863 and dying in 1926, Walter Moore Coleman is generally identified as an African American poet, essayist, and lecturer. His work belongs to a period when Black writers were using literature and public speech to argue for opportunity, dignity, and fuller participation in American life.
Available reference material on him is fairly limited, but he is associated with writing that combined literary interests with social concerns. That mix gives his work a clear place in the broader tradition of early Black intellectual and cultural life in the United States.
Because confirmed biographical details are sparse in the sources I could locate here, it is safest to present him as a lesser-known figure whose writing and speaking contributed to the era's ongoing conversations about race and progress.