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James Baldwin was born August 2, 1924, New York -
His dad was never present but his mom was and she later on married a man that was his stepfather he was the oldest child out of nine kids.
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James Baldwin’s first experience living abroad was in Paris, France, where he relocated in 1948, in the hopes that a new place and time away would help him finish his first novel, Go Tell It On The Mountain (1953) and draft his famous collection of essays, Notes of a Native Son (1955).
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From age 14 to 17 Baldwin was active during out-of-school hours as a preacher in a small Pentecostal church, a period he wrote about in his semiautobiographical first and finest novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, and in his play about a woman evangelist, The Amen Corner.
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"The Fire Next Time" is a profound work by James Baldwin, consisting of two essays published in 1963 that articulate the deep-seated anger, frustration, and hope of African Americans during a pivotal time in U.S. history.
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The 1965 debate between noted author and civil rights activist James Baldwin and William F. Buckley, Jr. this debate, received massive public attention. Those in favor maintained that it was long overdue for the 15th Amendment (1870) to be fully and consistently enforced, and this was the position taken by Baldwin. Buckley held that it was a state matter.
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IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK is a lyrical and moving adaptation of author James Baldwin’s 1974 novel – and a masterpiece unto itself, earning an AFI AWARD as one of the 10 outstanding films deemed culturally and artistically representative of the year’s most significant achievements in the art of the moving image.
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Dies in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France.