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Dudley Randall was born on 14 January, 1914 in United States, is an American poet (1914– 2000). Discover Dudley Randall's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 86 years old?

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1914

Dudley Randall (January 14, 1914 – August 5, 2000) was an African-American poet and poetry publisher from Detroit, Michigan.

Dudley Randall was born on January 14, 1914, in Washington, D.C., the son of Arthur George Clyde (a Congregational Minister) and Ada Viola (Bradley) Randall (a teacher).

Randall was the third of five children, including James, Arthur, Esther, and Phillip.

1920

His family moved to Detroit in 1920, and he married his first wife Ruby Hands in 1935, and soon after had a daughter, Phyllis Ada.

1927

In 1927, at the age of 13, his first published poem, a sonnet, appeared in the Detroit Free Press.

The sonnet won the first prize of one dollar on the "Young Poets Page."

Early inspiration stemmed from Randall's father taking him and his brothers to hear prominent African-American writers and artists speak, including W. E. B. Du Bois, Walter Francis White, James Weldon Johnson, and others.

1930

After graduating from Eastern High School in 1930, he worked in a foundry of the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan, from 1932 to 1937.

1938

He also worked as a clerk at a post office in Detroit from 1938 to 1943 and served in the military during World War II.

1942

This marriage dissolved, and Randall married Mildred Pinckney in 1942, but this marriage did not last either.

1949

He was working at a post office while attending Wayne State University in Detroit, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1949.

1951

Randall then completed his master's degree in Library Science at the University of Michigan in 1951.

He worked as a librarian at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri, and later at Morgan State College in Baltimore, Maryland.

1956

In 1956, he returned to Detroit to work at the Wayne County Federated Library System as head of the reference interlibrary loan department.

1957

In 1957, he married Vivian Spencer.

Randall developed an interest in poetry at a young age.

1963

Randall's most famous poem is "The Ballad of Birmingham," written in response to the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, in which four girls were killed.

Randall's poetry is characterized by simplicity, realism, and what one critic has called the "liberation aesthetic."

Other well-known poems of his include "A Poet is not a Jukebox", "Booker T. and W.E.B.", and "The Profile on the Pillow".

1965

He founded a pioneering publishing company called Broadside Press in 1965, which published many leading African-American writers, among them Melvin Tolson, Sonia Sanchez, Audre Lorde, Gwendolyn Brooks, Etheridge Knight, Margaret Walker, and others.

Randall was the publisher of Broadside Press from 1965 until 1977 when he sold the press to the Alexander Crummell Memorial Center, although he continued to serve as a consultant.

The press began because Randall wanted to establish copyright on two poems that Jerry Moore was setting to music, "Ballad of Birmingham" and "Dressed All in Pink."

Broadside Press took off in 1965 when, during the Writer's Conference at Fisk University, Randall saw Margaret Walker practicing her recitation of a poem about Malcolm X she was going to perform.

When Randall commented on the number of poems being published about Malcolm, Margaret Burroughs suggested the idea of an anthology.

1966

In 1966, Broadside Press published Poem Counterpoem, authored by Randall with Margaret Danner, founder of Boone House, a black cultural center in Detroit where they both read their work.

In the words of R. Baxter Miller, "Perhaps the first of its kind, the volume contains ten poems each by Danner and Randall. The poems are alternated to form a kind of double commentary on the subjects they address in common. Replete with allusions to social and intellectual history, the verses stress nurture and growth. In "The Ballad of Birmingham" Randall establishes racial progress as a kind of blossoming, as he recounts the incident."

Naomi Long Madgett writes: "His interest in Russia, apparent in his translations of poems by Aleksander Pushkin ("I Loved You Once", in After the Killing) and Konstantin Simonov ("My Native Land" and "Wait for Me" in A Litany of Friends), was heightened by a visit to the Soviet Union in 1966. His identification with Africa, enhanced by his association with poet Margaret Esse Danner from 1962 to 1964 and study in Ghana in 1970, is evident in such poems as "African Suite" (After the Killing)."

Randall received many awards throughout his career, including:

1968

Randall's next publication was Cities Burning (1968), a group of thirteen poems, in response to a riot in Detroit.

1969

From 1969 to 1976 Randall was a reference librarian at the University of Detroit (now the University of Detroit Mercy), and served also as the University's Poet-in-Residence.

1970

Another fourteen poems appeared in Love You (1970), followed by More to Remember (1971) and After the Killing (1973).

1971

In his honor, the Dudley Randall Poet-in-Residence Award was established in 1971 and is still an annual event at the University as the Dudley Randall Poetry Contest.

1981

In 1981, Randall was named Poet Laureate of the City of Detroit by Mayor Coleman Young.

2000

Randall died on August 5, 2000, aged 86, in Southfield, Michigan.

2001

In May 2001, the University of Detroit Mercy's McNichols Campus Library was designated a National Literary Landmark by the Friends of Libraries USA (now the Association of Library Trustees, Advocates, Friends, and Foundations) and UDM's Dudley Randall Center for Print Culture was named in his honor.

The Dudley Randall Poetry Prize is awarded to a University of Detroit Mercy student each year.

2014

On January 12, 2014, the centennial of Dudley Randall's birth was celebrated at the University of Detroit Mercy Library.

Detroit Poet Laureate Naomi Long Madgett spoke about her friendship and collaborations with Randall.

Poet and professor Dr. Gloria House read selections of Dudley Randall's poetry.

Poet Albert M. Ward and former Dudley Randall Poetry contest winners Deonte Osayande and Lori Allan Read their work.