It is the birthday of novelist and social critic James Baldwin
(1924), who emerged as a voice of the civil rights movement in the 1960s,
with such books as T
he Fire Next Time (1963),
Going to Meet the Man
(1965), and T
ell Me How Long The Train's Been Gone (1968). His
best known novel was his first,
Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953), a
semi-autobiographical novel about a young black man growing up in Harlem
in the 1930s. It is considered one of the best English-language novels
of the 20th century.
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