Henry Dumas

In the early hours of May 23, 1968, the promising life of Henry Dumas, a 33-year-old African American writer and poet, was tragically cut short on a subway platform in Harlem, New York. He was shot and killed by a New York City Transit Police officer at the 125th Street and Lenox Avenue station. The incident occurred just weeks after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in a climate of high social and racial tension. Dumas, a husband and father of two sons, was in New York to be the ...

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