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Reprinted from the New York Amsterdam News

N.Y. AMSTERDAM NEWS Sat., Sept. 25, 1971 -- A-15

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Awards night

THE BACK ACADEMY of Arts and Letters held its second annual awards banquet Sunday, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel and honored black men and women who have made significant contributions to the arts and letters. First picture, left, shows Arna Bontemps reading the citation before making presentation to poet Gwendolyn Brooks. In second picture, Academy president Dr. C. Eric Lincoln is seated, left, with Mrs. Maurice C. Chifford of Philadelphia and Alhaji Tatari Ali, Nigerian Deputy Minister of Information and Labor; dancer Katherine Dunham is seen speaking after accepting her award, while in the fourth picture Dorothy Porter, left, congratulates Mari Evans who won the first annual letters competition for poetry. (Harris photos)