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Neal, Larry P.

Larry P. Neal

Born in Atlanta but thriving in the New York cradle of the Black Arts movement, Larry P. Neal (1937-1981) spent his short, busy life as a poet, critic, editor, dramatist, musician, and college professor.  A close collaborator of Amiri Baraka’s, he helped to build the Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School (BARTS) in Harlem and coedited Black Fire (1968), a defining Black Arts anthology.  Neal’s poetry was collected in two animated volumes, Black Boogaloo (1969) and Hoodoo Hollerin’ Bebop Ghosts (1974), but more influential was his work as an essayist and editor for Cricket, the Liberator, the Journal of Black Poetry, and other independent black venues.  In a 1968 manifesto, he quotably defined the Black Arts movement as the “aesthetic and spiritual sister of the Black Power concept.”  The FBI considered Neal an especially serious security threat, not only including him on its Security Index but also judging him a potential Presidential assassin. 

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Title
Neal, Larry P.

Description
FBI documents studying Larry P. Neal.

Creator
FBI

Publisher
FBI

Date
1966-1972

Rights
Material is in the public domain.

Format
text, 130 PDFs, 400 ppi

Language
English

Type
text

Coverage
1966-1972