Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fire Next Time, Baldwin...
NONFICTION 1. The Whole Truth and Nothing But, Hopper (1) 2. The Fire Next Time, Baldwin (3) 3. I Owe Russia $1,200, Hope (7) 4. Travels with Charley, Steinbeck (2) 5. You Are Not the Target, Huxley 6. The Great Hunger, Woodham-Smith (9) 7. The Living Sea, Cousteau (6) 8. Final Verdict, St. Johns (10) 9. The Feminine Mystique, Friedan 10. The Ordeal of Power, Hughes...
...failure of these behind-the-scenes negotiations was demonstrated in a tragicomic fashion on May 24. At Bobby's request, Negro Author James Baldwin (TIME cover, May 17) arranged for a New York City meeting. Among those present besides Bobby and Baldwin were Negro Singers Lena Horne and Harry Belafonte, Playwright Lorraine (A Raisin in the Sun) Hansberry, Psychologist Kenneth Clark. Bobby went into the meeting under the illusion that Negroes feel gratitude toward the Administration. What he encountered was a shouting, finger-shaking barrage of anger, disappointment and impatience. Afterwards, one participant said the meeting was a "flop...
...miserable one." In New York, Whitney M. Young Jr., executive director of the National Urban League, declared that it was time for the President to "place human rights above regional politics" and to "exhibit the kind of guts that he himself described in his book, Profiles in Courage." Author Baldwin has charged the Administration with "spinelessness," and has demanded that the Kennedys take a moral position and stop playing politics...
...enduring reason why whites should want to get rid of race discrimination is not that Negroes are protesting against it, but that it violates justice and morality. There is a blurring contradiction between the Negroes' appeal to justice and their threats of certain violence to come-in Author Baldwin's words, "the fire next time...