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1. www.pbs.org › wnet › americanmastersJames Baldwin Biography and Quotes | James Baldwin ... - PBS

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   Nov 29, 2006 · James Baldwin — the grandson of a slave — was born in Harlem in 1924. The oldest of nine children, he grew up in poverty, developing a troubled relationship with his strict, religious...

2. nmaahc.si.edu › james-baldwinJames Baldwin | National Museum of African American History ...

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   James Baldwin (1924–1987) was a writer and civil rights activist who is best known for his semi-autobiographical novels and plays that center on race, politics, and sexuality.

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     Fact Check: About a James Baldwin Quote That Suggests Reasons Those in Power Dismiss Protests by Black People

     Getty Images Claim: James Baldwin wrote, "When the South has trouble with its Negroes — when the Negroes refuse to remain in their 'place' — it blames 'outside agitators' and 'Northern interference ...

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     Fact Check: Posts Claim James Baldwin Wrote About 'Paradox of Education.' Here's What He Said

     Getty Images Claim: James Baldwin said, "The paradox of education is precisely this — that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated." ...

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4. www.nytimes.com › article › james-baldwin-best-booksJames Baldwin’s Best Books - The New York Times

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   Feb 28, 2024 · Feb. 28, 2024. James Baldwin would have turned 100 on Aug. 2 this year. His final works were published almost 40 years ago, just two years before his death in 1987. Yet his writing is as...

5. nmaahc.si.edu › explore › storiesAn Introduction to James Baldwin | National Museum of African ...

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   Learn more about the life of James Baldwin as he traveled the world while remaining close to family and establishing enduring friendships.

6. www.poetryfoundation.org › poets › james-baldwinJames Baldwin | Poetry Foundation

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   A novelist and essayist of considerable renown, James Baldwin bore witness to the unhappy consequences of American racial strife. Baldwin’s writing career began in the last years of legislated segregation; his fame as a social observer grew in tandem with the civil rights movement as he mirrored…

7. www.theguardian.com › film › 2024‘He craved an Oscar’: James Baldwin’s long campaign to crack ...

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   3 days ago · Tue 30 Apr 2024 00.00 EDT. I t’s fair to say James Baldwin wasn’t a fan of The Exorcist. “It has absolutely nothing going for it,” he wrote in his 1976 memoir-meets-criticism collection ...

8. www.nytimes.com › 1987/12/02 › obituariesJames Baldwin, Eloquent Writer In Behalf of Civil Rights, Is ...

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   Dec 2, 1987 · James Baldwin, whose passionate, intensely personal essays in the 1950's and 60's on racial discrimination in America made him an eloquent voice of the civil-rights movement, died of stomach...