Allen Polite Papers 1955-1993.

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Allen Polite Papers 1955-1993.

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Handwritten manuscripts, notebooks, letters, typed transcriptions of poetry, prose and a play for voices, and published works by Allen Polite, writer and artist affiliated with the Black Arts Movement.

10.5 Linear feet

Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Center.

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Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Center.

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Helene Polite

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Polite, Allen, 1932-1993

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Writer and artist Allen Polite (1932-1993) was born in Newark, NJ . He was raised and went to school there until he was drafted into the United States Army . He served in Korea and Japan in 1952 and 1953. Polite settled in Greenwich Village, and between 1954 and 1956, studied philosophy at Columbia University . After 1958, he worked at the United Nations headquarters in New York. The writer LeRoi Jones acknowledged Polite as his 'mentor' in his Autobiography and first published Poli...

LeRoi, Jones

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