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James Arthur Baldwin (né Jones; August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an African-American writer and civil rights activist who garnered acclaim for his essays, novels, plays, and poems. His 1953 novel Go Tell It on the Mountain has been ranked by Time magazine as one of the top 100 English-language novels . [ 1 ]
"Sonny's Blues" is a 1957 short story [1] written by James Baldwin, originally published in Partisan Review. The story contains the recollections of a black algebra teacher in 1950s Harlem as he reacts to his brother Sonny's drug addiction, arrest, and recovery. Baldwin republished the work in the 1965 short story collection Going to Meet the ...
William Johnson depicted the riot in his c. 1943–1944 painting Moon Over Harlem. Several authors and artists have depicted the event in their respective works. African-American novelist James Baldwin wrote of the riot, which occurred on the same day as his father's funeral and his 19th birthday, in Notes of a Native Son. [28] "
Birth and family. Baldwin, born James Arthur Baldwin on Aug. 2, 1924, at Harlem Hospital, was the eldest of nine children. His mother, Emma Berdis Jones, raised him with her husband and James ...
Writer, poet and activist James Baldwin (1924-1987) was one of the leading literary voices of the civil rights movement. ... They do not know Harlem, and I do. So do you. Take no one's word for ...
Go Tell It on the Mountain is a 1953 semi-autobiographical novel by James Baldwin. It tells the story of John Grimes, an intelligent teenager in 1930s Harlem, and his relationship with his family and his church. The novel also reveals the back stories of John's mother, his biological father, and his violent, fanatically religious stepfather ...
In 1921, the library hosted the first exhibition of African-American art in Harlem; it became an annual event. [11] The library became a focal point to the burgeoning Harlem Renaissance . [ 7 ] In 1923, the 135th Street branch was the only branch in New York City employing Negroes as librarians, [ 12 ] and consequently when Regina M. Anderson ...
On August 2, Baldwin’s would-be one hundredth birthday, the family is hosting a celebration at Lincoln Center after events earlier in the day at the New York Public Library and Harlem’s ...