Richard Isadore Durham was an African-American writer and radio producer.
10 Facts About Richard Durham
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Richard Durham attended Hyde Park High School and Northwestern University.
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Richard Durham wrote for New Masses, the Chicago Defender, the Chicago Star and the Illinois Standard newspapers.
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Richard Durham then was a press agent for T R Howard during Howard's 1958 run for Congress.
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Richard Durham had a supporting role in the 1972 film Sounder.
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Richard Durham co-wrote The Greatest: My Own Story, the 1975 autobiography of Muhammad Ali.
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In 1980 Ali and Richard Durham wrote the article "Why I Must Fight" for Umoja Sasa.
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Richard Durham wrote for the Illinois Writers Project, Here Comes Tomorrow and Ebony Magazine.
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From at least the late 1940s until his death, Richard Durham was married to fellow Northwestern alumnus and prominent Chicago educator Clarice Davis, with whom he had one child, a son, Mark.
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Richard Durham died on April 27,1984, of a heart attack while on a trip to New York City.