gh her parents were eating poorly and living poorly in general ,(The Awakening of the Negro). A repeated concept that is expressed in his writings was the fact that the black man and woman have been learned all the things that a white man and woman had learned, but have not learned the things that will bring them out of poverty in the south and that more and more of his race have been moving to the city where menial agricultural work is not needed and where they do not have to learn to cook and to clean and to do any laborious work, as they would have to do in there home towns or counties....
