To Fit In- The Story of Harlem Renaissance Writer Nella Larsen; By Sofia Moreno
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- To Fit In- The Story of Harlem Renaissance Writer Nella LarsenBy: Sofia Moreno
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- Nella was born in the city of Chicago in 1891. Not common at the time her mom Mary Hanson was white and born in Denmark and her father Peter Walker was black from the West Indies. From a child Nella felt different. Being biracial meant she didn't look like either of her parents.
- It is going to be hard as a single mom to raise you, but you have to be strong and know your worth
- My dad was the only person that looked like me and now he is gone. I feel like a horse with a group of zebras
- Nella's mom remarried a white man a few years later. Nella was the only black person in her family and she struggled with not fitting . She felt lost; she didn't know who she was or who she wanted to be.
- Nella then went to Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee to study nursing. While Nella was there she was surrounded by people that looked like her for the first time. There were so many African American people of all shades of brown. She did not feel lonely anymore and felt like she fit like a piece in a puzzle. While she felt happy and connected to people like her, she didn’t feel like she found her true purpose in life.
- Nella then moved to Harlem, New York to be a nurse at Lincoln Hospital. She fell in love and got married to Elmer Imes, the second African American to earn a Ph.D. in physics. She became surrounded by new friends that were well known writers and leaders of the Harlem Renaissance movement. Seeing people like her sparked a flame in her and inspired her to write poems and follow her dreams. She published two books, Quicksand in 1928 and Passing in 1929. Nella Larsen became a leading arthur in the Harlem Renaissance movement and finally felt like she fit in
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