Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fire Next Time, Baldwin...
...Richmond the Rev. Martin Luther King, echoing a suggestion by Negro Author James Baldwin, called for a nationwide boycott of Christmas-gift buying as a symbolic gesture to the six Negro children who were killed recently in Birmingham (TIME, Sept. 27). One adverse response came from Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the N.A.A.C.P. Said Wilkins: "I find it difficult to go against Santa Claus. I feel a good many other Americans would find it difficult also...
...FIRE NEXT TIME, Baldwin...
...FIRE NEXT TIME, Baldwin...
...order of business was a program of professional entertainment. Folk Singers Joan Baez, Josh White, Odetta, Bob Dylan, Peter-Paul-and-Mary rendered hymns and civil rights songs. Actor Marlon Brando brandished an electric cattle prod of the sort sometimes used by cops against civil rights demonstrations. Author James Baldwin, Actors Paul Newman, Burt Lancaster, Charlton Heston made appearances. And onetime Folies-Bergère Star Josephine Baker looked out at the biracial crowd and snapped satisfiedly: "Salt and pepper-just what it should...