Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fire Next Time, Baldwin...
...young (29) Texan, has written a book about homosexuality that offers a report of the male prostitute's world. Cast as a confession, it is not a novel except in form; what value it has depends on its truthfulness as eyewitness reportage. It has been wildly heralded. James Baldwin: "Rechy is the most arresting young writer I've read in a very long time." Herbert Gold: "One of the most remarkable novels to appear in years...
...understand correctly, Mr. Baldwin does not like liberals. Well, I have news for him. There are thousands of radicals, liberals and just plain, ordinary white people in the United States who are people of good heart and have none of these prejudices he has taken his stake of land...
...Negro, I object to James Baldwin's being used as a symbol of Negro hopes and aspirations. Human problems develop because of a general refusal to accept individual responsibility. Every person must fight his own private battle; search his own soul; practice the selfish principles embodied in the Golden Rule...
...iron out civil rights disputes in behind-the-scenes negotiations. Bobby has attended dozens of closed-door meetings with white and Negro leaders. They have not all been successful. At one, in New York, the Attorney General sat down with a group of Negro intellectuals led by Author James Baldwin. Bobby was stunned by the militance of the Negroes, particularly when one said that many Negroes might not fight...