Imamu Amiri Baraka
Imamu Amiri Baraka is a poet and playwright that became well known in the late sixties and early seventies. He wrote many controversial poems and plays such as “Dutchman”, and poems such as the collection “A Preface to a 20 Volume Suicide Note…” Baraka dealt with many issues ranging from homosexuality to racsism. In his lifetime Baraka has experihenced much racsism due to him being African-American. He never backed down from his critics though and kept on writing the same controversial poems and plays.Imamu Amiri Baraka was originally born to the name Everett Leroy Jones on October 7, 1934, in Newark, New Jersey. As a young child he spent his time writing comic strips and science fiction stories, however as a young child he wanted to be a minister because they were the most respected leaders in the black community. He changed his mind later quoting “ There are to many homosexuals in the church for me.” After High School he enrolled at Rutgers University and then changed the spelling of his name to LeRoi Jones. He then went on and transferred to Howard University, but he found Howard too difficult and he eventually dropped out. From 1954 to 1957 Baraka served in the U.S. Air Force, in the Air Force he wrote
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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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