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  2. James Baldwin - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Go Tell It on the Mountain (novel) - Wikipedia

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    James Baldwin was born in 1924 in Harlem to an unwed mother who had left Maryland for New York and never knew his biological father. Several years later, his mother married a much older laborer and Baptist preacher from Louisiana who had come north in 1919.

  4. James Baldwin: Literary icon and voice for civil rights and ...

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    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 ...

  5. To Us, He Was James Baldwin. To Them, He Was Uncle Jimmy. - AOL

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    With his Uncle Jimmy and his parents, Daniel would go to Italy on short excursions to see Yoran Carzac, the French artist who drew the illustrations for Baldwin’s only children’s book, Little ...

  6. Baldwin family - Wikipedia

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    The Baldwin family’s patrilineal line traces to a Richard “Rich” Baldwin, who lived in England, c. the 1500s. Through their father Alexander Rae Baldwin Jr., the Baldwin brothers are descended from the Mayflower passengers John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley, as well as from William Bradford through their maternal grandfather, Daniel LeRoy Martineau. [1]

  7. Sonny's Blues - Wikipedia

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    "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 ...

  8. James Baldwin at 100 - AOL

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    A century after his birth in Harlem, the writer and activist is being celebrated for his visionary work, and for the many facets of his personality – Black, gay, New Yorker, expatriate – that ...

  9. I Am Not Your Negro - Wikipedia

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    The website's critical consensus reads, "I Am Not Your Negro offers an incendiary snapshot of James Baldwin's crucial observations on American race relations—and a sobering reminder of how far we've yet to go." [15] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 95 out of 100, based on 36 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". [16]