![]() At the age of 33, Dumas was shot and killed by a New York City Transit policeman in a case of mistaken identity.Įugene Redmond, a fellow teacher at Southern Illinois University, helped to make Dumas’s work available posthumous collections of Dumas’s poetry include Play Ebony, Play Ivory (1974) and Knees of a Natural Man: The Selected Poetry of Henry Dumas (1989). Identified with the Black Power movement during his lifetime, Dumas was also active in the civil rights movement. He and his wife, Loretta Ponton, had two sons. Dumas attended Rutgers University and worked for a year at IBM, then left the company to teach and direct language workshops at Southern Illinois University. He attended City College in New York before joining the Air Force he was stationed in San Antonio, Texas, and on the Arabian Peninsula. ![]() Before that happened, however, he had written some of the most beautiful, moving and profound poetry and fiction that I have ever in my life read.”įiction writer and poet Henry Dumas was born in Arkansas, but moved to Harlem when he was 10. Circumstances surrounding his death remain unclear. ![]() ![]() A transit cop shot him in the chest and killed him. ![]() “In 1968, a young Black man, Henry Dumas, went through a turnstile at a New York City subway station. ![]()
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