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Field name | Value |
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Title | Interview with Amiri Baraka |
Library | Henry Hampton Collection, Film & Media Archive, Washington University Libraries |
Collection Name | Henry Hampton Collection |
Collection Overview | These oral history interviews are part of the 'I'll Make Me A World: African-American Artists in the 20th Century' collection, a celebration of some extraordinary achievements by African-American writers, dancers, painters, actors, musicians, and other influential artists of the 20th Century. |
Date | 20 Oct 1997 |
Description | Amiri Baraka (1934-2014) was an African-American writer of poetry, literature and music criticism. This interview primarily discusses Baraka's life following the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, when he moved to Harlem and founded the Black Arts Repertory Theater/School, a key institution of the Black Arts Movement (BAM) (an artistic branch of the Black Power movement). |
Document Type | Oral History (Video) |
Theme(s) | Arts and Culture; Civil Rights and Black Power |
Keywords | arts, assassination, civil liberties, boycotting, black nationalism, newspaper, black power, Harlem Renaissance |
Places | Montgomery, Alabama; New York, New York |
People | Malcolm X; Bearden, Romare; Hughes, Langston; Hansberry, Lorraine; Brooks, Gwendolyn; Gillespie, Dizzy; Parker, Charlie; Baldwin, James |
Organisations/Associations | Black Panther Party; Black Arts Movement (BAM); Black Arts Repertory Theater/School (BARTS) |
Note | Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the catalogue of Washington University in St. Louis. |
Name | Baraka, Amiri |
Interviewer | Greene, Denise; Pollard, Sam |
Date of Recording | 20 Oct 1997 |
Duration | 01:13:58 |
Copyright | Copyright is owned by Washington University |