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Feb 1, 2001 · On April 25th, 1961, two giants of African-American history faced each other in a debate on the nature of racism in America and specifically looked at the sit-ins and their effectiveness, and...
Baldwin took part in the Civil Rights Movement, becoming close friends with Medgar Evers, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Maya Angelou, Nina Simone, and Lorraine Hansberry. The deaths of many of these friends influenced his novels and plays and his writing about race relations in America.
Feb 3, 2017 · Filmmaker Raoul Peck's latest documentary, I Am Not Your Negro, is based an unpublished book by James Baldwin, about the lives and deaths of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King,...
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Malcolm X, an African American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement, was shot multiple times and died from his wounds in Manhattan, New York City on February 21, 1965, at age 39.
Feb 2, 2017 · Raoul Peck's Oscar-nominated documentary transforms an unfinished Baldwin manuscript about Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Medgar Evers into an urgently resonant film.
Baldwin wrote three essays explicating his critique of Wright’s “protest art” in the novel Native Son (1940); their disagreement eventually led to the demise of their friendship, which Baldwin regretted after Wright’s death in 1960.
Jun 19, 2020 · It had been a difficult year. Malcolm X was assassinated in February. In March, the world witnessed the brutality of Alabama state troopers attacking protesters on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, in...
