| 3/24/1964 |
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Amiri Baraka, Broadway to 9/11
On this day in 1964 Amiri Baraka's one-act play, Dutchman, opened off-Broadway, launching its author into 40 years of racial controversy. Baraka, then still know as LeRoi Jones, suggested in the play that racial killing might be a last-resort path to healing for oppressed and repressed African-Americans -- "a whole people of neurotics, struggling to keep from being sane." |
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