Jan 6, 2010

Salem on History | James Baldwin

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Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Twentieth Century
Categories: Literature, Publishing
Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Novelists, Short Story Writers, African Americans, Blacks, Race, Ethnicity, Racism, Civil Rights, Minority Rights, Minorities, Homosexuality, Homosexuals, Gay Men, Lesbians, Sexuality, Human Rights
Curriculum: American History 1951-present, African American History

Article abstract: During the racial unrest in the United States in the 1960’s, Baldwin was the most visible and respected literary figure in the Civil Rights movement. His best work has focused on racial concerns and on homosexuality.

Early Life

James Baldwin, the son of Berdis Jones Baldwin and the stepson of David Baldwin, a Baptist preacher, was born and grew up in New York City’s black ghetto, Harlem; he was the oldest of nine children. By the time he was fourteen years old, Baldwin, then a student in New York’s De Witt Clinton High School, was...

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Salem on History | James Baldwin

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Early Life

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