found: Her The flagellants, 1987, c1967:CIP t.p. (Carlene Hatcher Polite)
found: NUCMC data from Boston Univ., Dept. of Spec. Coll. for Carlene Polite collection, 1967(Carlene Hatcher Polite; b. 1932; African Amer. dancer, writer, and teacher)
found: New York times WWW site, Dec. 31, 2009(Carlene Hatcher Polite; b. Carlene Hatcher, Aug. 28, 1932, Detroit; d. Dec. 7, Cheektowaga, N.Y., aged 77; experimental novelist of the 1960s and '70s whose work focused on the uneasy confluence of racism and sexism in the lives of black people; her first marriage ended in divorce; adopted the surname Polite from a later relationship; m. James Patrick, 2003)
found: African American National Biography, accessed March 09, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Polite, Carlene Hatcher; fiction writer, essayist, political activist, civil rights activist, dancer; born 28 August 1932 in Detroit, Michigan, United States; completed Sarah Lawrence College near New York City; enjoyed a career as a professional dancer, appearing on stage with the Concert Dance Theatre of New York City, the Vanguard Playhouse in Detroit, and as a dancer and organizer at the Equity Theater in Detroit (1955 to 1963); worked for the Detroit Council for Human Rights (1963); helped coordinate the Freedom Now rally and served as organizer of the Northern Negro Leadership Conference; active in the NAACP (1960's); published first novel, Les Flagellents (1966); published second book, Sister X and the Victims of Foul Play (1975); associate professorship at the State University of New York at Buffalo (1970's); honors include, a Pulitzer Prize nomination; the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities fellowship and the Rockefeller Foundation fellowship (1968); died 07 December 2009 in Cheektowaga, New York, United States)
