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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
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