James Baldwin, Influential Writer and Civil Rights Figure Turns 100
The HinduPublished : Aug 03, 2024 21:20 IST - 3 MINS READ James Baldwin was born in the New York district of Harlem in 1924, when the world was already deeply racist. And yet there was also a great deal of anger, as he confessed in a 1961 radio interview: “To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a state of rage almost all of the time—and in one’s work.” Baldwin’s ambivalent relationship with Africa The 1960s not only saw the civil rights movement in the US, but also independence movements on the African continent, with which Baldwin had an ambivalent relationship. That means he was in touch with this history.” Rediscovered by Black Lives Matter With the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, the civil rights movement also lost its momentum. His biographer Rene Aguigah recommends one of Baldwin’s essay volumes to newcomers as introductory reading: The Fire Next Time.
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