Dudley Randall was born January 19, 1914 in Washington DC and died August 2, 2000 in Southfield, Michigan. His mother Ada Viloa was a teacher and his father Arthur George Clyde Randall was a congregational minister. His father was very involved in politics because Dudley and his brother listened to prominent black speakers. When Randall was about nine years old, he and his family moved to Detroit, Michigan in 1920. At the age of thirteen, his first poem was published in the Detroit Free Press. By the age of sixteen, he had graduated from high school. After graduating, he went to work in a blast furnace unit at Ford Motor Company's Rouge plant. After working at Ford for five years, Randall took a job with the United States Postal Service as a clerk and mail carrier. In July 1943, he was drafted into the U.S. Army Air Corps and served in World War II. After returning from the war, he returned to work at the post office. In 1949, while working at the post office, he received his Bachelor of Arts in English and his Masters in Science Library....