James David Corrothers

James David Corrothers (1869–1917) was a Black poet, journalist and minister, born in Cass County, Michigan. He studied at Northwestern University and worked as a journalist before entering the ministry.

He is the author of The Black Cat Club (1902), a book of dialect sketches and verse, and his poems appeared in the Century Magazine and other periodicals. Several are gathered in James Weldon Johnson’s The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922).