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(LITERATURE AND POETRY.)
JONES, LEROI [aka] AMIRI BARAKA.
Leroi Jones Spirit House Movers and
Players, the Theatre of Reality and
Black Drama.
Program, in tabloid news-
paper format. 8 pages folio; paper evenly
toned; crease where folded.
Newark, NJ: Spirit House, 1967
[400/600]
A FRAGILE AND THUS SCARCE PROMOTIONAL
PIECE FROM THE EARLIEST PART OF POET
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ACTIVIST AMIRI BARAKA
’
S CAREER
.
Leroi
Jones’ Spirit House Movers and Players was an
important part of the evolution of the Black
Arts movement. This “program” is actually an
approximate printing of the material that
makes up the content of an evening’s entertain-
ment, created by Imamu Amear Baraka, as he
was then known. Jones/Baraka together with
Ron Karenga and others would stand and
deliver the material in a declamatory manner,
some of it almost a “Rap.”
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(LITERATURE AND POETRY.)
LOCKE, ALAIN.
Harlem Mecca of
the New Negro in an issue of the
Survey Graphic Magazine.
Illustrated.
Large 4to, pictorial blue and white wrap-
pers and illustrations by Winold Reiss;
some wear to the delicate covers; inter-
nally clean.
New York, 1 March 1925
[800/1,200]
A HARLEM RENAISSANCE CLASSIC
.
This
issue of the Survey Graphic published articles,
stories, and poetry by just about everyone of
note from the just emerging “Harlem
Renaissance.” Most of the writers and poets
were in their twenties, while a few like W.E.B.
Du Bois and James Weldon Johnson repre-
sented the Old Guard, an old guard very much
in step with the younger writers. Articles
explaining and introducing the younger group
include Enter the New Negro by Alain Locke,
and The Making of Harlem by James Weldon
Johnson. The artwork by Winold Reiss, is
evocative of the style of Aaron Douglass.