Henry Dumas (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Henry Lee Dumas (dyew-mah) became increasingly recognized, in the years following his tragic death in 1968, as one of the most significant voices of the Black Arts cultural movement of the 1960’s. In the mid-1940’s Dumas, the son of Appliance Watson and Henry Joseph Dumas, moved from Arkansas to Harlem, where he graduated from Commerce High School in 1953. After briefly attending City College, Dumas entered the Air Force and served there until 1957. In 1955 he married Loretta Ponton, with whom he had two sons.
Following his discharge from the Air Force, Dumas enrolled at...
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