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Dudley Randall
American poet (1914– 2000)
Dudley Randall (January 14, 1914 – August 5, 2000) was an African-Americanpoet and poetry publisher from Detroit, Michigan.[1] He founded a pioneering publishing company called Broadside Press in 1965, which published many leading African-American writers, among them Melvin Tolson, Sonia Sanchez,[2]Audre Lorde, Gwendolyn Brooks,[2]Etheridge Knight, Margaret Walker, and others.[1]
Randall's most famous poem is "The Ballad of Birmingham," written in response to the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, in which four girls were killed.[3] Randall's poetry is characterized by simplicity, realism, and what one critic has called the "liberation aesthetic."[4] Other well-known poems of his include "A Poet is not a Jukebox", "Booker T. and W.E.B.", and "The Profile on the Pillow".
Life
Dudley Randall was born on January 14, 1914, in Washington, D.C.,[5] the son of Arthur George Clyde (a Congregational Minister) and Ada Viola (
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Dudley Randall
Dudley Randall was born on January 14, 1914, in Washington, D.C. In 1920, his family moved to Detroit, Michigan, where his father, Arthur Randall, worked for Ford Motor Company. Randall began writing seriously at age thirteen, and in 1927 his first published poem appeared in the Detroit Free Press. Randall graduated from Detroit’s Eastern High School in 1930. He began working full-time at the Ford Motor Company foundry in 1932. After he was laid off in 1937, he served as a postal carrier and clerk for Detroit’s U.S. Post Office for several years. During this time, he became friends with the poet Robert Hayden, who also lived in Detroit. In 1943 he was drafted into the U.S. Army and served in the South Pacific during World War II.
After returning from the Pacific front in 1946, Randall received a BA in English from Wayne State University in 1949 and an MA in library science from the University of Michigan in 1951. He went on to serve as a librarian at several universities, including the University of Detroit, where he was also the poet in residence.
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Sources
Books
Barksdale, Richard K., and Keneth Kinnamon, editors, Black Writers in America: A Comprehensive Anthology, Macmillan 1972.
Black Poets: The New Heroic Genre, Broadside Press, 1983.
Black Writers: A Selection of Sketches from Contemporary Authors, Gale Research, 1989.
Boyd, Melba Joyce. Wrestling With the Muse: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press, Columbia University Press, 2004.
Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 41: Afro-American Poets Since 1955, Gale Research, 1985.
King, Woodie, Jr., editor, The Forerunners: Black Poets in America, Howard University Press, 1981.
Miller, R. Baxter, editor, Black American Poets Between Worlds, 1940–1960, University of Tennessee Press, 1986.
Periodicals
Black American Literature Forum, Vol. 17, no. 4, 1983, p. 157; February 1984.
Black Issues Book Review, November-December 2000, p. 14.
Black World, December 1971; September 1974.
Callaloo, Vol. 6, no. 1, 1983, p. 156.
Detroit Free Press Magazine, April 11, 1982.
Journal of American History, March 2005,
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