No Name in the Street

No Name in the Street

By James Baldwin

Pages

208

Rating

4.50

Year

1972

EssaysRaceHistoryMemoirPoliticsAfrican American

Description

In this stunningly personal document, James Baldwin remembers in vivid detail the Harlem childhood that shaped his early consciousness and the later events that scored his heart with pain—the murders of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, his sojourns in Europe and in Hollywood, and his return to the American South to confront a violent America face-to-face.

From one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century—an extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies that powerfully speaks to contemporary conversations around racism.

Endorsements

“It contains truth that cannot be denied.” — The Atlantic Monthly

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