{"id":757,"date":"2013-08-07T11:14:55","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T18:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=757"},"modified":"2017-05-26T09:30:08","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T16:30:08","slug":"beecher-john-1904","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=757","title":{"rendered":"BEECHER, JOHN, 1904-1980"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Teacher, poet, civil rights crusader. \u00a0Born– January 22, 1904, New York, N.Y. Parents– Leonard Thurlow and Isabel (Garghill) Beecher. Education– Attended Virginia Military Institute and Cornell University; University of Alabama, A.B., 1926;\u00a0graduate work at\u00a0Harvard University, 1926-27; ; University of Wisconsin, M.A., 1930;\u00a0graduate work at the\u00a0University of North Carolina, 1933-34.\u00a0 Served in the U. S. Merchant Marine, WWII; stationed on the S. S. Booker T. Washington, <\/em>the first racially integrated unit in the U. S. Merchant Marine. Married– Virginia St. Clair Donovan, September 20, 1946; married\u00a0Barbara Marie Scholz, August 16, 1955. Children– Five. Worked for U.S. Steel in Birmingham; instructor in English at Dartmouth College and the University of Wisconsin; administrator of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration in North Carolina; manager of resettlement projects and migrant camps for the U.S. Department of Agriculture; assistant editor and editorial writer for the Birmingham News and Birmingham Age-Herald; regional director of the President’s Committee on Fair Employment; chief editor for the National Institute of Social Relations; assistant professor of sociology at San Francisco State College; rancher; lecturer in English at Arizona State University; a poet in residence at the University of Santa Clara, North Shore Community College, St. Johns University, and Assumption College. After the German surrender, director of thirty displaced persons camps around Stuttgart. Visiting professor at Miles College, 1966-1967. Contributed articles and poetry to many journals and periodicals.\u00a0 Associate editior, Ramparts Magazine, 1959-67. Operated Ramparts Press with his wife.\u00a0 Member American Association of University Professors.\u00a0 Died May 11, 1980.<\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Contemporary Authors online\u00a0and a brochure in the files at the Alabama Public Library Service.<\/p>\n

Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n

All Brave Sailors; the Story of the SS Booker T. Washington<\/em>. New York; L. B. Fischer, 1945.<\/p>\n

And I Will Be Heard. New York; Twice a Year Press, 1940.<\/p>\n

Bestride the Narrow World.\u00a0 Rampart, 1963.<\/p>\n

Collected Poems, 1924-1974. New York; Macmillan, 1974.<\/p>\n

Conformity Means Death.\u00a0 Rampart, 1963.<\/p>\n

Hear the Wind Blow! Poems of Protest and Prophecy. New York; International Publishers, 1968.<\/p>\n

Here I Stand. New York; Twice a Year Press, 1941.<\/p>\n

Homage to a Subversive. Scottsdale, Ariz.; Ramparts Press, 1961.<\/p>\n

A Humble Petition to the President of Harvard.\u00a0 Rampart, 1963.<\/p>\n

In Egypt Land. Scottsdale, Ariz.; Ramparts Press, 1960.<\/p>\n

Inquest; a Poem. San Francisco; Morning Star Press, 1957.<\/p>\n

John Beecher Papers; 1899-1972. (14 reels of microfilm). Glen Rock, N.J.; Microfilming Corporation of America, 1973.<\/p>\n

Just Peanuts; a Poem. San Francisco; Morning Star Press, 1957.<\/p>\n

Land of the Free; a Portfolio of Poems on the State of the Union. Oakland, Calif.; Morning Star Press, 1956.<\/p>\n

Moloch.\u00a0 Morning Star, 1957.<\/p>\n

Observe the Time; an Everyday Tragedy in Verse. San Francisco; Morning Star Press, 1956.<\/p>\n

On Acquiring a Cistercian Brewery.\u00a0 Rampart, 1963.<\/p>\n

Phantom City. Scottsdale, Ariz.; Ramparts Press, 1961.<\/p>\n

Poems for the People; Broadsides … San Francisco; Morning Star Press, 1957.<\/p>\n

Report to the Stockholders and Other Poems, 1932-1962. Phoenix, Ariz.; s.n., 1962.<\/p>\n

To Live and Die in Dixie, and Other Poems. Birmingham, Ala.; Red Mountain Editions, 1966.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow is a Day; a Story of the People in Politics. Chicago; Vanguard Books, 1980.<\/p>\n

Undesirables; Poems. Landham, Md.; Gossetree Press, 1964.<\/p>\n

Yours in the Bonds. Rampart, 1963.<\/p>\n

Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n

A collection of the manuscripts of John Beecher is held by the library at Duke University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Biography: Teacher, poet, civil rights crusader. \u00a0Born– January 22, 1904, New York, N.Y. Parents– Leonard Thurlow and Isabel (Garghill) Beecher. Education– Attended Virginia Military Institute and Cornell University; University of Alabama, A.B., 1926;\u00a0graduate work at\u00a0Harvard University, 1926-27; ; University of Wisconsin, M.A., 1930;\u00a0graduate work at the\u00a0University of North Carolina, 1933-34.\u00a0 Served in the U. S. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6529,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions\/6529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}