Amiri Baraka Collection 1964-1974 1968

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Amiri Baraka Collection 1964-1974 1968

Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones on October 7, 1934, in Newark, New Jersey) is an American writer of poetry, drama, essays, and music criticism. The collection consists of correspondence and clippings, most relating to Baraka's 1967 arrest in Newark, New Jersey; there is one letter from Baraka (1974).

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