Larry Neal papers, 1961-1985.

Black Panther Party

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The Black Panther Party was founded in October 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale as an organization dedicated to protecting and uplifting the Black population of Oakland. As the organization grew this focus spread to the rest of the United States and even abroad. The armed militancy and Marxist rhetoric employed by the Black Panthers, along with their philosophy of Black self-government caught the attention of both local law enforcement authorities and the FBI. As a result, many in the Pant...

Ward, Douglas Turner, 1930-2021

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Negro Ensemble Company co-founder, actor, director, and playwright Douglas Turner Ward was born Roosevelt Ward, Jr. on May 5, 1930, in Burnside, Louisiana. Ward was a descendant of General Nathan Bedford Forrest, founder of the Ku Klux Klan; his great, great, great-grandmother, Elnora, owned as a slave by Forrest, bore a child with him. Ward's parents, Roosevelt Ward and Dorothy Short Ward were field hands, but they owned their own tailoring business. Raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, and attend...

Parker, Charlie, 1920-1955

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Jazz musician. From the description of Autograph card signed : [Indiana?], to Paul G. Klawans, 1950. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270904397 ...

Roach, Max, 1924-2007

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Max Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz drummer and composer. A pioneer of bebop, he worked in many other styles of music, and is generally considered one of the most important drummers in history. He worked with many famous jazz musicians, including Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Abbey Lincoln, Dinah Washington, Charles Mingus, Billy Eckstine, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Eric Dolphy, and Booker Little. He...

Hurston, Zora Neale, 1891-1960

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Zora Neale Hurston was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on hoodoo. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937. She also wrote more than 50 short stories, plays, and essays. Hurston was born in Notasulga, Alabama, and moved with her family to Eatonville, Florida, in 1894. She later used Eatonville as the setting for many of her stories. It is n...

Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014

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Amiri Baraka was born LeRoi Jones in Newark, New Jersey, in 1934. He was educated at Rutgers and Howard Universities, graduating from the latter at the age of 19. In 1958 he founded the influential poetry magazine Yugen, which ran until 1962. His writings, including fiction, essays, and poetry, appeared in such publications as The nation, Evergreen review, Downbeat, and The floating bear. From the description of Imamu Amiri Baraka papers, 1958-1982. (University of California, Berkele...

Congreso de la Cultura Negra de las America (1977): Columbia, South America)

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Reed, Ishmael, 1938-....

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Writer Ishmael Reed was born on February 22, 1938 in Chattanooga, Tennessee to Thelma Virginia Coleman, a homemaker and salesclerk, and Henry Lenoir, a fundraiser for the YMCA. In 1942, he moved to Buffalo, New York with his mother and stepfather, Bennie Stephen Reed, an autoworker. Reed graduated from East High School in 1956, enrolled in night classes at Millard Fillmore College, and later transferred to SUNY Buffalo.In 1961, Reed began writing forEmpire State Weekly, during which time he inte...

Fuller, Hoyt, 1923-1981

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Hoyt William Fuller (1923-1981), African American author and editor, born in Atlanta, Georgia. From the description of Hoyt Fuller papers, 1940-1981. (Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, Inc.). WorldCat record id: 38475704 ...

Fuller, Charles

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Congress of African Peoples

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Wright, Richard, 1908-1960

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Richard Nathaniel Wright was born September 4, 1908 near Natchez, Mississippi, to Ella Wilson Wright, a schoolteacher, and Nathan Wright, a sharecropper. The story of Richard Wright's childhood, with its harrowing episodes of abandonment by his father, his temporary consignment to an orphanage after his mother became ill, and his short-lived schooling under the harsh guardianship of his grandmother have been detailed in his autobiography, Black Boy (published in 1945 by Harper & Row)....

Schultz, Charles H.

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World Festival of Negro Arts

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Viera de Silva, Antonio.

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Sackler, Howard.

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Howard Sackler, playwright, screenwriter, director, poet. From the description of Goodbye Fidel : typescript, 1979, September. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122414904 From the description of Semmelweiss : typescript, 1981. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 144652464 From the description of The pastime of Monsieur Robert : typescript, 1970, February. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122517815 Playwright, screenwrit...

Ellison, Ralph, 1914-1994

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African American author, born Ralph Waldo Ellison (1914-1994) in Oklahoma to a family who migrated from South Carolina. From the description of Ralph Ellison papers, 1990-1994. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 32828103 African American author and educator. Born 1914; died 1994. From the description of Ralph Ellison papers, 1890-2005 (bulk 1930-1994). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983760 Ralph Ellison began writing seriously in 1939....

Neal, Larry, 1937-1981

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Larry Neal, writer, literary and music critic, and major catalyst for the Black Arts Movement of the 1960's and 1970's. Born in 1937 in Atlanta, Georgia, he was raised in Philadelphia, and in 1961 received his Bachelor of Arts degree in history and English from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. He taught writing and other English courses at several universities, including Drexel Institute of Technology (Philadelphia), City College of New York, Case Western Reserve, and...

D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities

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Nascimento, Abdias do, 1924-

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