Robert T. Kerlin

Robert T. Kerlin
Kerlin in 1918 at the Virginia Military Institute
BornMarch 22, 1866
Newcastle, Missouri, US
DiedFebruary 21, 1950(1950-02-21) (aged 83)
Cumberland, Maryland, US
Known forCivil rights activism, socialist activism, English teaching

Robert Thomas Kerlin (March 22, 1866 – February 21, 1950) was an American educator, minister, and civil rights activist. He authored several books and edited the 1920 anthology The Voice of the Negro and the 1923 poetry anthology Negro Poets and Their Poems. Kerlin taught English at several schools, and was fired from three in a row for his activism.

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