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RANDALL DUDLEY
Dudley Randall (January 14, 1914 – August 5, 2000) was
an African-American poet and poetry publisher from De-
troit, Michigan. He founded a pioneering publishing com-
pany called Broadside Press in 1965, which published
many leading African-American writers, among them
Melvin Tolson, Sonia Sanchez, Audre Lorde, Gwendolyn
Brooks, Etheridge Knight, Margaret Walker, and others.
Randall's most famous poem is "The Ballad of Birming-
ham," written in response to the 1963 bombing of a black
church in Birmingham, Alabama.
