There, he first met Richard Wright (an African-American author whose strong protests against racial prejudice made him one of his generation's most important spokespersons) and began his first novel, In My Father's House. ... The contemporary significance of Blues for Mr. ...
The Civil Rights Movement in Miami The Truly Prolonged African American Experience in Miami How strange it all seems now equality. People had to fight for it? Kill for it? Go to court to defend it? Not too long ago, it was all true and clearly evident in any regular functioning day. The...
LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, playwright, author, poet, activist, critic, and educator. ... He was the main artist/intellectual responsible for shifting the emphasis of the contemporary black literature from an the idea of a writer who happen to be black to a writer who is black and lets his experience effect his writing. ...
