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African-American History
Amiri Baraka
Poet, playwright, activist, lecturer; novelist, editor, anthropologist
and director; Amiri was born Everett LeRoy Jones in Newark, NJ on October
7, 1934.
Baraka first came to the attention of American readers as LeRoi Jones.
His first collection of poems, Preface to a Twenty-Volume Suicide Note,
and his two early dramatic plays, The Baptism and The Toilet catapulted
him into public attention.
After having lived first in the lower eastside of New York City then
Harlem, LeRoi Jones went back to his hometown of Newark to lead and organize
the Black Community Development and Defense Organization. The purpose of
the organization was to advance the cause of the African-American community
in Newark.
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