| LC control no. | n 79108930 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3552.A583 |
| Personal name heading | Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014 |
| Variant(s) | Baraka, Imamu Amiri, 1934-2014 Jones, LeRoi, 1934-2014 Baraka, Ameer, 1934-2014 Barakah, Amīr, 1934-2014 Imamu Amiri Baraka, 1934-2014 Jones, Everett LeRoi, 1934-2014 Jones, Leroy, 1934-2014 Jones, Le Roi, 1934-2014 Jones, Everett Leroy, 1934-2014 Baraka, Imamu Ameer, 1934-2014 بركة، أميري، 1934- |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1934-10-07 |
| Death date | 2014-01-09 |
| Place of birth | Newark (N.J.) |
| Place of death | Newark (N.J.) |
| Field of activity | Black Arts movement Black nationalism |
| Affiliation | Howard University State University of New York at Stony Brook Yale University United States. Air Force Congress of African Peoples |
| Profession or occupation | Poets Dramatists College teachers Political activists |
| Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
| Found in | His Preface to a twenty volume suicide note, 1961. His Eulogies, 1996: CIP t.p. (Amiri Baraka) pub. info. (born Leroy (later changed to LeRoi) Jones in Newark, N.J. in 1934, Amiri Baraka moved to New York's Greenwich Village in the 1950s) Junge amerikanische Lyrik, 1961: p. 156 (Le Roi Jones) Amiri Baraka, author's website viewed November, 3, 2011: biography page (Amiri Baraka) Poets.org, viewed November 3, 2011: Amiri Baraka entry (hdg: Amiri Baraka; born Everett LeRoi Jones; in 1968 he became a Muslim, changed his name to Imamu Amiri Baraka; in 1974 Baraka adopted a Marxist Leninist philosophy and dropped the spiritual title "Imamu") New York times (online), viewed Jan. 10, 2014 (in obituary published Jan. 9: Amiri Baraka; b. Everett Leroy Jones, Oct. 7, 1934, Newark; known as Leroy; while a student at Howard University, partly in homage to the African-American journalist Roi Ottley, changed the spelling of his name to LeRoi, with the emphasis on the second syllable; by the late '60s he had converted to Islam and adopted the Bantuized Arabic name Imamu Ameer Baraka, which he would later alter to Amiri Baraka; d. Thursday [Jan. 9, 2014], Newark, aged 79; poet and playwright; one of the major forces in the Black Arts movement of the 1960s and '70s) The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones); Everett Jones; poet, dramatist, essayist, anthologist, political activist; born 07 October 1934 in Newark, New Jersey, United States; received a scholarship to Rutgers University in Newark; transferred to Howard University, where he remained briefly before joining the U.S. Air Force in 1954; transformed himself and his art with the rise of Black Power; major organizer and participant in the Congress of African Peoples (CAP) and in the National Black Political Convention in Gary, Indiana; was a chairman of the Congress of African People; taught at Yale University, Rutgers University, Columbia University, and New York University, SUNY, Stony Brook (Department of Africana Studies); died 09 January 2014 in Newark, New Jersey, United States) |
| Associated language | eng |
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