[2] She edited a column in The Crisis from 1925 until 1929, called "The Little Page", where she made drawings and wrote poetry for children and parables about being young and black in the 1920s.
After relocating to Wilberforce, Ohio, Effie Lee Newsome found work as a librarian in an elementary school and continued to build her career as a writer during the Harlem Renaissance.
[5] Though Effie Lee Newsome was primarily known as a nature poet and a contributor to children's literature, her impression of the people of the Harlem Renaissance was clear.
Newsome was also expected to teach the black youth about their history as a people and how to turn the anger toward white America into love and compassion.
Newsome's contribution to children's literature was aligned to some degree with that of W.E.B Du Bois, her editor in the early days of the NAACP.