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The Fire Next Time is a 1963 non-fiction book by James Baldwin, containing two essays: "My Dungeon Shook: Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation" and "Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region of My Mind". The book's title comes from a couplet in some versions of "Mary Don't You Weep", an African-American spiritual.
- James Baldwin
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Dec 1, 1992 · View Kindle Edition. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The book that galvanized the nation, gave voice to the emerging civil rights movementin the 1960s—and still lights the way to understanding race in America today.
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James Baldwin. 4.54. 101,348 ratings9,187 reviews. A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin’s early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial ...
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A collection of essays by Baldwin that explore the themes of race, identity, and history in America. The book opens with a letter to his nephew, urging him to resist the oppression and ignorance of white society, and continues with personal and political reflections on the challenges and hopes of black Americans.
About The Fire Next Time. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The book that galvanized the nation, gave voice to the emerging civil rights movementin the 1960s—and still lights the way to understanding race in America today. • “The finest essay I’ve ever read.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Dec 1, 1992 · James Baldwin. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Dec 1, 1992 - Political Science - 128 pages. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The book that galvanized the nation, gave voice to the emerging civil rights...
The Fire Next Time, nonfiction book, published in 1963, comprising two previously published essays in letter form by James Baldwin. In these essays Baldwin warned that, if white America did not change its attitudes and policies toward black Americans and alter the conditions under which blacks were forced to live, violence would result.
