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Julian Hudson Mayfield, a
black writer, pofitical activist, actor
and advisory editor of the
journal Saga/a, died of heart
complications on Oct. 20 at the
age of 56. He was a resident of
Washington, D.C.
Born in Greer, S.C., Mayfield
grew up in Washington and
graduated from Dunbar High .
School. He attended Lincoln
. University and served in the Army
immediately after World War
II.
Mayfield was the author of
three critically acclaimed novels,
"The Hit" (1957), "The Long .
Night" (1958) and "The Grand
Parade" (1961). A prolific
essayist on black themes,
Mayfield was writer-in-residence
at Howard University for the last
six years. His articles have appeared
in The New York Times,
The Washington Post, Black
World, Freedomways, The
Atlantic Monthly, Nation, and
Commentary.
As an actor, Mayfield created
the role of the son of Absalom
Kumalo in the Maxwell
Anderson-Kurt Weill musical,
"Lost in the Stars," which was
produced on Broadway in 1950
by the Playwright's Company.
The play was based* on Alan
Paton's novel, "Cry, the Beloved
Country," about apartheid in
South Africa.
Mayfield also played Tank in
the 1969 motion picture, "Uptight,"
a contemporary black
version of "The Informer,"
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A member of the Harlem
Writers Guild, Mayfield wrote
two plays ~ *'417*' and "The
Other Foot" - and co-produced
Ossie Davis's first play, "Alice in
Wonder."
In the late 1950s, Mayfield was
involved with Robert Williams in
the civil rights movement in
Monroe. The issues underlying
the movement brougi^JftS&fl
with the NAACP.
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uthor, activist
In the late 1960s, Mayfijpd's
advocacy of black nationalism
led to a self-imposed exile in
Ghana, where he lived from 1961
to 1966 and wrote speeches for
President Kwame Nkrumah. Tn
the early 1970s he lived in
Guyana, where he was an advisor
to Prime Minister Forbes Burnham.
Before going to Howard
University as writer-in-residence,
Mayfield was a visiting fellow at
Cornell and New York universities
and lectured in West Germany
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Fellowship. From 1975 to 1978,
he was a visiting professor at the
University of Maryland. At the
time of his death, he was working
on his political memoirs.
Mayfield's survivors include
his wife, Joan Cambridge of
Washington and Guyana; two
sons by his first marriage, Rafael
and Emiliano, both of Puerto
Rico; his mother, Mrs. Annie
Mae Mayfield, and a sister, Mrs.
Dorothy Mayfield Barkley, both
of Washington; and extended
* family members.
Funeral services were held at
the Andrew Rankin Chapel at
Howard University on Friday,
Oct. 26.
From Julian Mayfield's "Yon
Touch My Black Aesthetic and
I'll Touch Yours," published in
Addison Gayle Jr.'s The Black
Aesthetic.
For those who must create,
there is a Black Aesthetic which
cannot be stolen from us, and it
rests on something much more
substantial than hip talk, African
dress, natural hair and endless,
fruitless discussions of "soul." It
is our racial memory, and the unshakable
knowledge of who we
are, where we have been, and
where we are going that the Black
Aesthetic, if it is anything, is the
search for a new program,
because all the old programs ...
have failed us.
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or an old one, lost and buried
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deep in our African past ... but
succeeding from all that,
beautiful, relevant, and immediate,
is a new breed of clean
young Black men and women
who know they have been programmed
by the white world and
who reject the program ... This
new breed does search for a deity,
a new pattern of spiritual values,
perhaps because they suspect that
their passage through this life will
be all too swift and they want it
to have meaning. They wake up
each morning knowing that no
day is a good day to die, but that
one day is as good as any other as
long as they do not die alone.
I cannot - will not ? define my
Black Aesthetic, nor will 1 allow
it to be defined for me, but 1
know that somehow it revolves
around this new breed of man
and woman who have leaped out
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semi-slaves, who survived so that
we might survive.
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