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Ethel Caution-Davis

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American poet
Ethel Caution-Davis
A young Black woman wearing a white blouse, in an oval frame
Ethel M. Caution-Davis, from the 1912 yearbook of Wellesley College
Born
Ethel M. Caution

April 18, 1887
Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
DiedDecember 18, 1981 (age 94)
New York, New York, U.S.
Other namesEthel M. Davis
Occupation(s)Poet, educator, social worker
RelativesJulia C. Collins (grandmother)
Frank A. Young (sportswriter)(brother)
Sinah Estelle Kelley (niece)

Ethel May Caution-Davis (April 18, 1887[1] – December 18, 1981) was an American poet, social worker, and educator associated with the Harlem Renaissance. She was one of the first Black graduates of Girls Latin School in Boston in 1908, and of Wellesley College in 1912. She was dean of women at Talladega College in the 1920s.

Early life and education

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Caution was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and raised in Williamsport, Pennsylvania,[2] the daughter of John Lake Caution Sr. and Annie Collins Caution. Her mother was a seamstress and her father worked at a sawmill. Her grandmother, Julia C. Collins, was a teacher and the author of a published novel, The Curse of Caste, or, The Slave Bride (1865).[3] Both of her parents died when she was a small child; she moved to Massachusetts to be raised by a relatives there, but after another death, Caution and her siblings were surrendered to an orphanage. Caution was adopted by a widow, Mary M. Davis.[4]

In 1908, Caution-Davis was one of the first Black children enrolled at Girls Latin School in Boston.[5] She graduated from Wellesley College in 1912,[6] [7] where she was recognized as a strong athlete.[8] She later spent a summer studying in Paris, and earned a master's degree at Columbia University in 1928.[4]

Her brother John changed his name and was a noted sportwriter, Frank A. Young.[4] Chemist Sinah Estelle Kelley was Caution-Davis's niece.[9] [10]

Career

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Caution-Davis worked as a waitress in her teens. After college, she taught school in Kansas City, Kansas, from 1914 to 1917,[11] [12] was a YWCA executive secretary in Los Angeles from 1919 to 1921,[13] [14] and was dean of women at Talladega College in the early 1920s.[15] [16] She was a caseworker for the New York City Department of Welfare, and director of "Club Caroline", a housing program for Black girls, later in the 1920s.[17] She was active in the NAACP chapter in Kansas City in 1916.[18]

Works

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Caution-Davis published her first poems and stories in the Wellesley Magazine and Wellesley News. Her stories and poems also appeared in The Crisis and in anthologies, usually in collections of African-American women's writings.[19] [20]

  • "In '61" (1911, short story)[21]
  • "A Worthy Cause" (1913, short essay)[22]
  • "Polly Sits Tight" (short story)
  • "A Man" (1916, poem)[23]
  • "Buyers of Dreams" (1921, short story)[24]
  • "To..." (1927, poem)[25]
  • "Long Remembering" (1928, poem)[26]
  • The Drop Sinister (1928, play)[27]
  • "Shopping" (1929, poem)[28]
  • "Last Night" (1929, poem)[29] [30]
  • "Sunset" (1929, poem)[31]

Personal life

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Caution-Davis was blind in her later years. She died in 1981, in New York City, probably in her 90s.[32]

References

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  1. ^ Some sources give 1880 as Caution's birthdate; however, she graduated from Girls Latin School in Boston in 1908, which might indicate a later year of birth. Her record in the U.S. Social Security Death Index gives April 18, 1887 as her birthdate, via Ancestry.
  2. ^ Honey, Maureen, ed. (2006年08月30日), "Ethel Caution-Davis (1880 –1981)", Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance, Rutgers University Press, pp. 16–21, doi:10.36019/9780813586205-008, ISBN 978-0-8135-8620-5 , retrieved 2025年01月31日
  3. ^ Sieminski, Mary L. "Discovering Julia Collins" Pennsylvania Center for the Book (Spring 2011).
  4. ^ a b c Sieminski, Mary (July 10, 2016). "Ethel May Caution: Groundbreaking poet, educator, and activist" (PDF). Lycoming County Women's History Project. pp. E1, E3.
  5. ^ "Girls' Latin School". The Boston Globe. 1908年06月19日. p. 8. Retrieved 2025年01月31日 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Ethel M. Caution-Davis, Class of 1912". Wellesley College. Retrieved 2025年01月31日.
  7. ^ Wellesley College, Legenda (1912 yearbook): 69.
  8. ^ "Wellesley Election; Track Teams Also Hold Their Annual Indoor Meet". The New York Times. 1912年04月28日. p. 50. Retrieved 2025年01月31日 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Ex-Soldier, Trailing Family Tree, Makes Many Discoveries". The Afro-American. 1930年09月13日. p. 2. Retrieved 2025年01月31日 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Russel C. Caution". Press of Atlantic City. 1967年01月18日. p. 35. Retrieved 2025年01月31日 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Teachers Assigned at Meeting of Board of Education Last Night". The Kansas City Globe. 1914年09月09日. p. 1. Retrieved 2025年01月31日 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Sumner High". The Kansas City Globe. 1916年09月08日. p. 3. Retrieved 2025年01月31日 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Class Notes: 1912". The Wellesley Alumnae Quarterly. 4 (4): 315. July 1920.
  14. ^ "Miss Ethel Caution". California Eagle. 1921年08月19日. p. 5. Retrieved 2025年01月31日 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ "The National Student Assembly". The Southern Workman. 53 (6): 286. June 1924.
  16. ^ "Ashland Place Branch Girls' Conference Groups". The New York Age. 1925年06月27日. p. 10. Retrieved 2025年01月31日 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ^ "Club Caroline, a New Residence Home for Girls, to be Opened in Six Buildings on West 127th St". The New York Age. 1928年08月18日. p. 3. Retrieved 2025年01月31日 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. ^ "Local Branch Hold Meeting and Banquet". Kansas City Advocate. 1916年02月25日. p. 1. Retrieved 2025年01月31日 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. ^ "African American Poetry: Ethel Caution-Davis: Author Page". African American Poetry: A Digital Anthology. Retrieved 2025年01月31日.
  20. ^ Girard, Melissa (March 2017). "J. Saunders Redding and the "Surrender" of African American Women's Poetry". PMLA. 132 (2): 281–297. doi:10.1632/pmla.2017.132.2.281. ISSN 0030-8129.
  21. ^ Roses, Lorraine Elena; Randolph, Ruth Elizabeth (1996). Harlem's Glory: Black Women Writing, 1900-1950. Harvard University Press. pp. 200–203. ISBN 978-0-674-37269-6.
  22. ^ Caution-Davis, Ethel M. (April 24, 1913). "A Worthy Cause". The Wellesley College News. 21 (26): 5 – via Internet Archive.
  23. ^ Caution-Davis, Ethel. "A Man" The Crisis 11(1916): 292.
  24. ^ African-American classics. Internet Archive. Mount Horeb, Wis. : Eureka ; London : Diamond. 2011. ISBN 978-0-9825630-4-5.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  25. ^ Caution, Ethel M. (December 1927). "To..." The Crisis: 337.
  26. ^ Caution, Ethel M. (October 1928). "Long Remembering". The Crisis: 338.
  27. ^ "Letter from W. E. B. Du Bois to Ethel M. Caution". Digital Commonwealth. August 13, 1928. Retrieved 2025年01月31日.
  28. ^ Caution, Ethel M. (April 1929). "Shopping". The Crisis: 124.
  29. ^ Caution, Ethel M. (February 1929). "Last Night". The Crisis: 50.
  30. ^ Brown, Jayna (2008年09月19日). Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern. Duke University Press. p. 232. ISBN 978-0-8223-9069-5.
  31. ^ Caution, Ethel (August 1929). "Sunset". The Crisis: 268.
  32. ^ Bracks, Lean'tin L.; Smith, Jessie Carney (2014年10月16日). Black Women of the Harlem Renaissance Era. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 45-46. ISBN 978-0-8108-8543-1.
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