Stephen Henderson (literary scholar)
Stephen Henderson | |
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| Born | Stephen Evangelist Henderson October 13, 1925 Key West, Florida, United States |
| Died | January 7, 1997 (aged 71) Langley Park, Maryland, United States |
| Occupation(s) | Professor and scholar |
| Notable work | Understanding the New Black Poetry: Black Speech and Black Music as Poetic Reference (1973) |
Stephen E. Henderson (October 13, 1925 – January 7, 1997) was an American professor of African-American literature and culture, whose 1973 book Understanding the New Black Poetry: Black Speech and Black Music as Poetic Reference is regarded as a seminal work. He is noted for providing the first formal interpretation of militant Black poetry, and, with Vincent Harding and William Strickland, for founding the Institute of the Black World in Atlanta, Georgia.