Imamu Amiri Baraka – Axios Press

Imamu Amiri Baraka

Also known as: Le Roi Jones

Born 1934

American

Writer and political activist. He has written in many genres, but is best known for his early expression of black anger and alienation from American society.

Contemporaries

1896–1986	Wallis Windsor
1895–1951	William Wilson
1911–1983	Tennessee Williams
1878–1958	John Watson
1907–1979	John Wayne
1927–1987	Andy Warhol
1891–1974	Earl Warren
1877–1936	William Walling
1888–1953	Jim Thorpe
1894–1961	James Thurber
1899–1979	Allen Tate
1904–1990	B. F. Skinner
1879–1935	Will Rogers
1885–1954	Ruth Rohde
1898–1976	Paul Robeson
1874–1960	John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
1839–1937	John D. Rockefeller
1880–1973	Jeannette Rankin
1889–1979	A. Philip Randolph
1911–1993	Vincent Price
1935–1977	Elvis Presley
1872–1960	Emily Post
1892–1964	Cole Porter
1898–1993	Norman Vincent Peale
1885–1945	George Patton
1871–1955	Maud Park
1913–1980	Jesse Owens
1929–1994	Jacqueline Onassis
1913–1994	Richard Nixon
Born 1934	Ralph Nader
1900–1949	Margaret Mitchell
1891–1980	Henry Miller
1880–1956	H. L. Mencken
1855–1942	Clinton Merriam
1890–1944	Aimee McPherson
1901–1978	Margaret Mead
1895–1989	John McCloy
1909–1957	Joseph McCarthy
1885–1957	Louis Mayer
1895–1977	Groucho Marx
1901–1979	Zeppo Marx
1893–1961	Harpo Marx
1891–1961	Chico Marx
1880–1959	George Marshall
1908–1993	Thurgood Marshall
1925–1965	Malcolm X
1880–1964	Douglas MacArthur
1889–1974	Walter Lippmann
1887–1948	Aldo Leopold
1894–1956	Alfred Kinsey
1922–1969	Jack Kerouac
1880–1968	Helen Keller
1908–1973	Lyndon Johnson
1869–1940	Emma Goldman
1886–1953	Douglas Southall Freeman
1897–1962	William Faulkner
Born 1941	Bob Dylan
1901–1966	Walt Disney
1886–1961	Ty Cobb
1864–1943	George Washington Carver
1888–1955	Dale Carnegie
1876–1965	George Baker
Born 1935	Woody Allen