Samuel Alfred Beadle
Samuel Alfred Beadle (August 17, 1857 – 1932) was an American poet and attorney, who was born the son of a slave in Atlanta, Georgia, and died in Chicago, Illinois. He published three books of poetry and stories. After the Civil War, Beadle moved to Jackson, Mississippi, where he studied and practiced law, at one time in partnership with Perry Howard.
Samuel Alfred Beadle
Uncredited · Beadle, S. A. Adam Shuffler. Jackson, Miss.: Harmon Publishing Company. September 16, 1901. · Public domain
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- 1857 · Atlanta.
- Died
- 1932 · Chicago.
- Nationality
- United States
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- lawyer · poet
- Education
- Atlanta University · Tougaloo College
- Known for
- Sketches from Life in Dixie · Adam Shuffler · Lyrics of The Underworld
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He married Aurelia Thomas and their son, Richard Henry Beadle (1884–1971) became a prominent photographer in Jackson.
• Sketches from Life in Dixie (Chicago: Scroll Publishing and Literary Syndicate, 1899) • Lyrics of "The Underworld" (Jackson, Mississippi: W.A. Scott, 1912) • Adam Shuffler (Jackson, Mississippi: Harmon Publishing Co., 1901)
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- 1."Henry Beadle Photography Collection on Exhibit at Jackson State University", Black Art in America, January 30, 2015.
- 2."Beadle, Samuel Alfred", Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967, University Press of Mississippi, p. 25.
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- Randy Patterson, Samuel Alfred Beadle: Black Mississippi Poet of the Early Twentieth Century, POMPA (Publications of the Mississippi Philological Association), 131-136 (1992)
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