| LC control no. | n 90668060 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3570.O77 |
| Personal name heading | Touré, Askia M. |
| Variant(s) | Snellings, Rolland El-Touré, Askia Muhammad Abu Bakr, 1938- |
| Associated place | Philadelphia (Pa.) |
| Located | Atlanta (Ga.) |
| Birth date | 1938-10-13 |
| Place of birth | Raleigh (N.C.) |
| Field of activity | Black nationalism |
| Affiliation | Clark Atlanta University |
| Profession or occupation | Poets Lecturers Educators |
| Found in | Author's From the pyramids to the projects, 1990: t.p. (Askia M. Touré) Black writers, c1994 (Touré, Askia Muhammad Abu Bakr el; b. Rolland Snellings, Oct. 13, 1938; changed name c. 1970) The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature, accessed March 10, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Touré, Askia M.; poet, community activist, lecturer, educator; born 13 October 1938 in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States; one of the original articulators of the Black Arts movement; a contributing editor for the magazine “Black Dialogue”, an editor at large for the “Journal of Black Poetry” (late 1960s through the mid 1970s); studied painting at the Arts Students League, New York (1960); black-run Third World Press published his long poem “Juju: Magic Songs for the Black Nation”, which pays homage to saxophonist John Coltrane (1970); published “Songhai!”, a collection of poems and sketches (1973); left for Philadelphia (1974); his work culminated in “From the Pyramid to the Projects: Poems of Genocide and Resistance”, a collection of poems for which he won the American Book Award (1989); the book was the first American Book Award winner that has as its theme black genocide; taught at Clark Atlanta University; a dominant force in shaping and organizing the city's National Black Arts Festival (since 1988)) |
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