characteristicsa of another country by james baldwin

Racism: Baldwin was both acutely aware of and shockingly eloquent about racial prejudice and social injustice, whether in America or abroad.

What can I say? Medgar, Malcolm, Martin, murdered. I did not have a suit and had one fitted for me that afternoon. James Baldwin: “Between two or three weeks ago, I had to fly from Hollywood to New York to do a benefit with Martin at Carnegie Hall. Maya Angelou: “We became friends in the late 50's: just as the United States was poised to make its quantum leap into the future just as Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks and other Southerners were girding themselves for the second civil war in one hundred years and just when Malcolm X was giving voice to the anger in the streets and in the minds of northern black city folks.”

African-American History: From the slave narrative to early 20th-century Harlem, from segregated America to the Civil Rights movement and beyond, Baldwin’s journey through history is up close and personal.ĭr.A better understanding of our past will help us grow a better future.A world of prejudice, possibility and gradual progress, these were the dynamics that shaped Baldwin’s writings, that shaped our film’s contents … and that are now in the process of shaping us. These themes – with on-camera comments from the film, selected written texts and related resources as starting points for discussion – connect us to Baldwin’s larger world, to the complex web of events and ideas from which he came.

Characteristicsa of another country by james baldwin