found: His Preface to a twenty volume suicide note, 1961.
found: His Eulogies, 1996:CIP t.p. (Amiri Baraka) pub. info. (born Leroy (later changed to LeRoi) Jones in Newark, N.J. in 1934, Amiri Baraka moved to New York's Greenwich Village in the 1950s)
found: Junge amerikanische Lyrik, 1961:p. 156 (Le Roi Jones)
found: Amiri Baraka, author's website viewed November, 3, 2011:biography page (Amiri Baraka)
found: Poets.org, viewed November 3, 2011:Amiri Baraka entry (hdg: Amiri Baraka; born Everett LeRoi Jones; in 1968 he became a Muslim, changed his name to Imamu Amiri Baraka; in 1974 Baraka adopted a Marxist Leninist philosophy and dropped the spiritual title "Imamu")
found: New York times (online), viewed Jan. 10, 2014(in obituary published Jan. 9: Amiri Baraka; b. Everett Leroy Jones, Oct. 7, 1934, Newark; known as Leroy; while a student at Howard University, partly in homage to the African-American journalist Roi Ottley, changed the spelling of his name to LeRoi, with the emphasis on the second syllable; by the late '60s he had converted to Islam and adopted the Bantuized Arabic name Imamu Ameer Baraka, which he would later alter to Amiri Baraka; d. Thursday [Jan. 9, 2014], Newark, aged 79; poet and playwright; one of the major forces in the Black Arts movement of the 1960s and '70s)
found: The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014:(Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones); Everett Jones; poet, dramatist, essayist, anthologist, political activist; born 07 October 1934 in Newark, New Jersey, United States; received a scholarship to Rutgers University in Newark; transferred to Howard University, where he remained briefly before joining the U.S. Air Force in 1954; transformed himself and his art with the rise of Black Power; major organizer and participant in the Congress of African Peoples (CAP) and in the National Black Political Convention in Gary, Indiana; was a chairman of the Congress of African People; taught at Yale University, Rutgers University, Columbia University, and New York University, SUNY, Stony Brook (Department of Africana Studies); died 09 January 2014 in Newark, New Jersey, United States)
