Arna Bontemps ()
Hoping for a much better life outside the racially oppressive South and Alexandria, Louisiana where Arnaud Wendell Bontemps was born on October 13, , the middle-class Bontemps family moved to the Watts community just south of Los Angeles. They soon abandoned Catholicism and became devout Seventh Day Adventists. Bontemps’ mother was a schoolteacher and his father, a bricklayer, was determined to have the family assimilate into the dominant white culture. In , Bontemps graduated from Pacific Union College, an Adventist school in California, and found work in the US Post Office. He next used his church connections to secure a teaching job at the Harlem Academy in New York City in
Bontemps’ arrival in the metropolis coincided with the height of the Harlem Renaissance and—inspired by the creative energy that surrounded him, and encouraged by his associates—over the next three years he wrote poetry that garnered the Alexander Pushkin Prize from Opportunity, the journal of the National Urban League) and the Poetry Prize from The Crisis, the publication of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Married in to a former student, Bont
ARNAUD WENDELL BONTEMPS ()
Arnaud ("Arna") W. Bontemps was born to Paul Bismarck and Maria Carolina (Pembroke) Bontemps on October 13, , in Alexandria, Louisiana. Three years after Bontemps' birth, as a result of several racial incidents, his father moved the family to Los Angeles, California. Reared in California, Bontemps received his primary and secondary education in both the public and private schools of the state. In, he was graduated from Pacific Union College with an A. B. degree. On August 26, , Bontemps was married to the former Alberta Johnson, and they became the parents of six children (Joan Maria, Paul Bismarck, Poppy Alberta, Camille Ruby, Constance Rebecca, and Arna Alexander).In , he earned the M.L.S. degree from the Graduate School of Library Science, University of Chicago. The year following his graduation from Pacific Union College, Bontemps' literary career began when his poem "Hope" was published in Crisis magazine, a periodical of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). In , Bontemps moved to New York and began teaching at the Harlem Academy. Two years after his move
Bontemps, Arna –
Novelist, poet, editor, educator, librarian
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Louisiana Roots, California Childhood
Harlem Renaissance Star
Explored Children&#x;s Lives
Selected Writings
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In , while researching for what has since become his most renowned novel, Black Thunder,Arna Bontemps was given an ultimatum by his employer, the head of the Huntsville, Alabama, Seventh-Day Adventist school. The headmaster demanded publicly that Bontemps burn most of the books in his small personal library if he wished to continue teaching there. Burning works by Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. DuBois, and Claude McKay, the headmaster believed, would prove to the world that Bontemps had no connection to the widespread protests surrounding the nearby Scottsboro trials, in which five young black men were falsely accused and later convicted of raping two young white women.
While he had no connections to the unrest surrounding the trial of the Scottsboro Boys, as they became known, Bontemps had raised suspicions by meeting with his close friends, the poet Langston Hughes and the writer Countee Cullen, and by ordering numerous books central to African-American history and
Arnaud Wendell Bontemps
On October 13, , Harlem Renaissance writer Arnaud (Arna) Wendell Bontemps was born to Paul Bismarck and Maria Carolina (Pembroke) Bontemps in Alexandria, Louisiana. For three generations, all of the males in his family had been brick masons, and Bontemps' father expected his son to follow suit. But after the death of his mother when he was only twelve, his father had a change of heart and enrolled him in a private school where he was the only black student.
Bontemps went on to be the first member of his family to enroll in college and receive a degree, but his father was furious that he chose to study literature instead of medicine or law. After he was graduated from college, he moved to New York because, he said, he "had watched the Harlem Renaissance from a grandstand seat," and now he was ready to see what all the excitement was about.
The excitement was about the a new way of looking at life and society through black eyes, and Bontemps soon became friends with writers such as Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, and James Weldon Johnson. They encouraged him to publish his poetry and fiction, and his fir
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