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1965 Baldwin/Buckley Debate. The Baldwin/Buckley Debate was a televised debate of The Cambridge Union Society held on 18th February 1965, which has since come to be seen as one of the most historic and influential intellectual debates on race relations in America. James Baldwin, an influential African American writer and activist, and William F ...
- Baldwin Wins The Debate
- Buckley, Baldwin React
- Buckley's Appeal to White Working Class
- Continued Resonance of The 1965 Debate
The occasionat the Cambridge Union Society, the oldest continuously running debating society in the world, marked the first time that Baldwin had participated in a formal debate. As an undergraduate at Yale, Buckley had starred on the debate team. Each debater was given 15 minutes to make their case. Baldwin argued for the motion and Buckley spoke ...
Buckley later called his face off in Cambridge with Baldwin the most satisfying debate that he ever had. “It was planned as an orgy of anti-Americanism,” he said in a 1968 Esquireinterview. “But I didn’t give one gaw-damn inch! They were infuriated. I lost four to one. But I walked out of there tall so far as self-respect goes.” In a less formal se...
In late 1965, Buckley found a sympathetic audience for his views on race when he ran for mayor of New York City. In the campaign, he espoused policies that reinforced many things that he had said in the debates with Baldwin. He proposed quarantining drug addicts and relocating chronic welfare cases outside of the city. According to Sam Lubell, then...
In the aftermath of the murders in 2020 of George Floyd and Breonna Taylorby police, Baldwin’s critique of American society gained new resonance. "Baldwin's voice as a novelist, as an essayist, as a critic of the hypocrisies of the nation and its core contradictions, speaks to this moment in ways that few other writers can," Harvard historian Khali...
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Aug 13, 2019 · The legendary debate that laid down US political lines on race, justice and history. Republished with the permission of The Cambridge Union (https://www.cus....
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Jun 7, 2015 · Following the video is my own transcript of James Baldwin’s famed 1965 debate speech at Cambridge University’s Union Hall. I have done my utmost to transcribe his words faithfully, adding only the emphasis of stars around words he uttered forcefully during his presentation. James Baldwin Debates William F. Buckley (1965) Good evening, I ...
Dec 2, 2019 · December 2, 2019. “The American Dream is at the expense of the American Negro,” James Baldwin declared on February 18, 1965, in his epochal debate with William F. Buckley Jr. at the University ...
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JAMES BALDWIN DEBATES WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY. AT CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY'S UNION HALL. DELIVERED FEBRUARY 18, 1965.Shared for historical purposes. I do not own the ...
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Sep 15, 2019 · September 15, 2019 at 7:00 a.m. EDT. Left: James Baldwin in New York City in 1963. Right: William F. Buckley Jr. in New York City in 1965. (AP) The way William F. Buckley Jr. remembered it later ...
