![]() ![]() When Baldwin emerged as an essayist in 1955 the civil-rights movement was barely ambulatory. ![]() Reading his latest book, "No Name in The Street"-a two-part, extended essay that is a memoir,Ī chronicle of and commentary on America's abortive civil-rights movement-that suspicion is nearly substantiated. Yet those same events may have rendered him an anachronism. Of white blacklash have attested to Baldwin's powers of divination. Riots, assassinations, the emergence of black power and the intensification His caveat was clamorously hailed, but insufficiently heeded. F we.do not falter in our duty now, we may be able.to end the racial nightmare," James Baldwin said nine years ago in "Theįire Next Time," warning that, if we did not, violent and vengeful racial clashed were inevitable. ![]()
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