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Henry Dumas papers
- Title
- Henry Dumas papers, 1966.
- Author
- Dumas, Henry, 1934-1968.
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| Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | folder 1 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 310 folder 1 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
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- Description
- 9 items (one folder)
- Summary
- One typed letter signed to LeRoi Jones (1966), accompanied by a photocopied typescript of a short story "Fon" and original typescripts of seven poems: "Cutting Down to Size," Hold on, I'm Comin!" "Knock on Wood," "Mosaic Harlem," "New Game," "Discus" and "Uplight."
- Donor/Sponsor
- Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.
- Subject
- Source (note)
- Glenn Horowitz Bookseller
- Biography (note)
- Born in Sweet Home, Arkansas, in 1934, Henry Dumas was an African American poet and short story writer, and the editor and publisher of several magazines, including "Anthologist," "Untitled," "Hiram Poetry Review" and "Collection."
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- Call Number
- Sc MG 310
- OCLC
- NYPW086000010-A
- Author
- Dumas, Henry, 1934-1968.
- Title
- Henry Dumas papers, 1966.
- Biography
- Born in Sweet Home, Arkansas, in 1934, Henry Dumas was an African American poet and short story writer, and the editor and publisher of several magazines, including "Anthologist," "Untitled," "Hiram Poetry Review" and "Collection." Dumas was shot and killed in the New York City subway in 1968, by a white policeman. His work was published posthumously and is represented in many anthologies, including "Black Fire" edited by Imamu Amiri Baraka (1968).
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- Sc MG 310