Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014 (Nombre personal)

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His Preface to a twenty volume suicide note, 1961.

His Eulogies, 1996: CIP title page (Amiri Baraka) pub. info. (born Leroy (later changed to LeRoi) Jones in Newark, N.J. in 1934, Amiri Baraka moved to New York's Greenwich Village in the 1950s)

Junge amerikanische Lyrik, 1961: page 156 (Le Roi Jones)

Amiri Baraka, author's website viewed November, 3, 2011: biography page (Amiri Baraka)

Poets.org, viewed November 3, 2011: Amiri Baraka entry (heading: Amiri Baraka; born Everett LeRoi Jones; in 1968 he became a Muslim, changed his name to Imamu Amiri Baraka; in 1974 Baraka adopted a Marxist Leninist philosophy and dropped the spiritual title "Imamu")

New York times (online), viewed January 10, 2014 (in obituary published January 9: Amiri Baraka; born Everett Leroy Jones, Oct. 7, 1934, Newark; known as Leroy; while a student at Howard University, partly in homage to the African-American journalist Roi Ottley, changed the spelling of his name to LeRoi, with the emphasis on the second syllable; by the late '60s he had converted to Islam and adopted the Bantuized Arabic name Imamu Ameer Baraka, which he would later alter to Amiri Baraka; d. Thursday [Jan. 9, 2014], Newark, aged 79; poet and playwright; one of the major forces in the Black Arts movement of the 1960s and '70s)

The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones); Everett Jones; poet, dramatist, essayist, anthologist, political activist; born 07 October 1934 in Newark, New Jersey, United States; received a scholarship to Rutgers University in Newark; transferred to Howard University, where he remained briefly before joining the U.S. Air Force in 1954; transformed himself and his art with the rise of Black Power; major organizer and participant in the Congress of African Peoples (CAP) and in the National Black Political Convention in Gary, Indiana; was a chairman of the Congress of African People; taught at Yale University, Rutgers University, Columbia University, and New York University, SUNY, Stony Brook (Department of Africana Studies); died 09 January 2014 in Newark, New Jersey, United States)

Hettie Jones obituary, New York times, online, viewed September 4, 2024 (Totem Press; with her husband LeRoi Jones, later known as Amiri Baraka, started a literary magazine named Yūgen in 1958 and launched Totem Press)