The Fire Next Time (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)

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James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time grew out of the charged American racial atmosphere of the late 1950’s and early 1960’s. The Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision in 1954 and the beginning of the Civil Rights movement in the late 1950’s had moved blacks, and some whites, toward social change. Blacks, in particular, began to fight for changes in American laws and institutions that were centuries old. They began to speak out boldly on issues and to attack the Southern system of legalized segregation through sit-in protests and...

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