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Papers of Amiri Baraka, poet laureate of the Black power movement
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Papers of Amiri Baraka, poet laureate of the Black power movement.
Published
Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, 2012.
Physical Description
1 online resource (212 items) : 9,297 page images.
Notes
Title from Web page (viewed on Oct. 2, 2012).
Date range of documents: 1913-1998.
Source note: Komozi Woodard Amiri Baraka Papers, Archives Division, Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System.
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Summary
The collection consists of materials from the years 1913 through 1998 that document African American author and activist Amiri Baraka and were gathered by Dr. Komozi Woodard in the course of his research. The extensive documentation includes poetry, organizational records, print publications, articles, plays, speeches, personal correspondence, oral histories, as well as some personal records. The materials cover Baraka's involvement in the politics in Newark, N.J. and in Black Power movement organizations such as the Congress of African People, the National Black Conference movement, the Black Women's United Front. Later materials document Baraka's increasing involvement in Marxism.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 08, 2013
Series
Archives unbound
Contents
Series I: Black arts movement, 1961-1998
Series II: Black nationalism, 1964-1977
Series III: Correspondence, 1967-1973
Series IV: Newark (New Jersey), 1913-1980
Series V: Congress of African People, 1960-1976
Series VI: National Black conferences and National Black Assembly, 1968-1975
Series VII: Black Women's United Front, 1975-1976
Series VIII: Student Organization for Black Unity, 1971
Series IX: African Liberation Support Committee, 1973-1976
Series X: Revolutionary Communist League, 1974-1982
Series XI: African socialism, 1973
Series XII: Black Marxists, 1969-1980
Series XIII: National Black United Front, 1979-1981
Series XIV: Miscellaneous materials, 1978-1988
Series XV: Serial publications, 1968-1984
Series XVI: Oral histories, 1984-1986
Series XVII: Komozi Woodard's office files, 1956-1986.
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Genre/Form
Archives.
History.
Records and correspondence.
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Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History.
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