Abdul, Raoul

LC control no.	n 50034814
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Abdul, Raoul *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Birth date	1929-11-07
Death date	2010-01-15
Place of birth	Cleveland (Ohio)
Place of death	New York (N.Y.)
Affiliation	Harvard University New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y. : 1919-1997) Cleveland Institute of Music Riverside Church (New York, N.Y.) Vienna Academy of Music Cleveland Call and Post Stonewall Mattachine Society One Incorporated
Profession or occupation	Singers Human rights workers Book editors
Found in	3000 years of black poetry, 1970: t.p. (Raoul Abdul) African American National Biography, accessed October 12, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Abdul, Raoul; opera singer, gay rights activist, book editor/publisher, secretary/personal assistant; born 07 November 1929 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States; worked as a journalist for Cleveland Call and Post; earned a diploma from the Vienna Academy of Music (1962); studied at Harvard University, the New School for Social Research, the Cleveland Institute of Music; sang at Vermont's Marlboro Music Festival (1956) and the Vienna Music Festival (1962); literary assistant to Langston Hughes (1961-1967); was a gay rights pioneer; his lectures on famous gays in the African American community at Riverside Church and elsewhere became legendary; active in organizations devoted to gay rights, including the Stonewall Mattachine Society and One Incorporated; was the entertainment editor for the New York Amsterdam News; died 15 January 2010 in New York, New York, United States)
Associated language	eng