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Also Known As Everett LeRoi Jones • Everett Leroy Jones • LeRoi Jones • Imamu Amiri Baraka
Born October 7, 1934 • Newark • New Jersey
Died January 9, 2014 (aged 79) • Newark • New Jersey
Founder Black Arts Repertory Theatre
Notable Works “Dutchman” • “Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note” • “S O S: Poems 1961–2013” • “The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones/ Amiri Jones” • “The Slave”
Movement / Style Black Arts movement

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Amiri Baraka, c. 1964
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