The New Crisis, September 1st, 2002
On the blank side of a July 1960 calendar page, Arna Bontemps wrote a message to himself for an autobiography he never finished. Its planned title was A Man's Name. The note read: "I speak for the tormented souls who are doomed to struggle through life with unusual or difficult names." Arna Bontemps was nearly 60 years old when he cited this mission for his life's story. He was already well established among the most distinguished African American authors of the 20th century, and like his long-time friend Langston Hughes, his career was launched with the publication of a poem in The Crisis. T...
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