Stephen Henderson (literary scholar)

Stephen E. Henderson (born October 13, 1925, in Key West, FL; died January 7, 1997, in Langley Park, MD) was a professor of African-American literature and culture.^[1] He is noted for providing the first formal interpretation of militant Black poetry,^[2] and, with Vincent Harding and William Strickland, for founding the Institute of the Black World in Atlanta, Georgia.^[3]

Further reading

• E. Ethelbert Miller, “Stephen E. Henderson: Conversation with a Literary Critic,” in Paul Logan, ed., A Howard Reader, 317–25.
• Stephen E. Henderson, “‘Survival Motion’: a Study of the Black Writer in the Black Revolution in America,” in Mercer Cook and Stephen E. Henderson, eds., The Militant Black Writer in Africa and the United States.
• CLA Journal, March 1973, p. 390-91; June 1997, p. 517-20.
• Jet, February 3, 1997, p. 18.
• The Journal of Negro History, 1969, p. 298-300; Fall 2000, p. 319.
• “Howard Legends,” Howard University, http://coas.howard.edu/english/about_legends.html. (September 22, 2016).
• “Stephen E. Henderson,” Biography Resource Center, www.galenet.com/servlet/BioRC (April 8, 2004).
• “Stephen E. Henderson,” http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3431100037.html
• White, Derrick E (2011). Challenge of Blackness: The Institute of the Black World and Political Activism in the 1970s. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. ISBN 978-0-8130-4062-2. Retrieved 2016-09-21. 

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