Background
Redding, Jay Saunders was born in 1906 in Wilmington, Delaware, United States. Son of Lewis Alfred and Mary Ann (Holmes) Redding.
(This classic study of American Black poetry, first publis...)
This classic study of American Black poetry, first published in 1939 and long out of print, is the work of perhaps the pre-eminent figure in Black Studies of the past two generations. A major contribution to the history of Black thought in America, it ranges widely, beginning in the late eighteenth century with Jupiter Hammon, the first American Black writer, and ending in the 1930s with Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes.
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Redding, Jay Saunders was born in 1906 in Wilmington, Delaware, United States. Son of Lewis Alfred and Mary Ann (Holmes) Redding.
Student, Howard School, Wilmington, 1923. Student, Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, 1924. Bachelor of Philosophy, Brown University, 1928.
AM, University Scholar, 1933. Student, Columbia University, 1934. Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Scholar, 1963.
Degree (honorary), Virginia State College, 1963. Degree (honorary), Hobart College, 1964. Degree (honorary), Dickinson College.
Degree (honorary), University Delaware. Degree (honorary), University Portland, 1970. Degree (honorary), Wittinberg University, 1977.
Degree (honorary), Morehouse University, 1981.
Teacher Morehouse College, Atlanta, 1928-1931, Louisville Municipal College, 1934-1936, Southern University, 1936-1938. Rockefeller Foundation fellow, 1940-1941. Professor English Hampton Institute, 1943-1966, Johnson professor creative literature until, 1966.
Director division research and publication National Endowment for Humanities, Washington, 1966-1970, consultant, since 1970. Ernest I. White professor American studies and humane letters Cornell University, 1970-1975, emeritus, since 1975. Guggenheim fellow, 1944-1945, 59-60.
Visiting professor English Brown University, 1949-1950. Fellow in humanities Duke University, 1964-1965. Board fellows Brown University Corporation, 1969-1981.
Honorary consultant, American culture Library of Congress, 1973-1976. Exchange lecturer Department State, India, 1952. American Society African Culture exchange lecturer, Africa, 1962.
Board directors American Council Learned Societies, since 1975, Center for Advanced Studies, University Virginia, since 1976.
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(On Being Negro In America, by Redding, J. Saunders)
Member fiction award committee National Book Award, 1955. Life member National Book Committee. Member Association for Study of Negro Life and History, American Folklore Society, Modern Language Association, Phi Beta Kappa.
Clubs: Cosmos (Washington).
Married Esther Elizabeth James, August 19, 1929. Children: Conway Holmes, Lewis Alfred.