Week 7-Thurs-James Baldwin

™ James Baldwin

™ Notable Black Writer

™ Harlem Renaissance to the Civil Rights Movement

™ Early Life

™ Born: August 2, 1924 in Harlem, New York

™ Challenging childhood.

™ Served as Youth Minister in a Harlem Pentecostal church. Ages 14-16

™ Started writing to escape step father

™ Graduated High school in 1942

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_hYraYI2J8

™ Aspiring Writer

™ Worked for high school’s magazine

™ Greenwich Village

™ Paris

™ Selected Works

™ Novels:

– Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953)

– Giovanni’s Room (1954)

™ Plays

– The Amen Corner (1954)

™ Short Stories

– Going to Meet the Man (1965)

™ Views

™ Leader in the Civil Right Movement

™ Gay Rights Movement

™ Advocate for artists everywhere, not just Black

James Baldwin - The Artist's Struggle for Integrity

(An Excerpt)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-IyamaAbxM

™ Best Known For

™ “James Baldwin was a novelist and playwright who wrote about racial and sexual issues in the mid-20th century, especially pertaining to black life in America.”

™ Died December 1, 1987 in France

™ Views shown in his Writings

™ Wrote about racial and sexual issues

– Notes of a Native Son (1955)
Nobody Knows My Name: More notes of a                           Native Son(1961)

– Going to Meet the Man (1960)

™ Teaching the Whites

– The Fire Next Time (1963)

™ “You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.”
― James Baldwin

™ References

™ James Baldwin. (2011). Biography.com. Retrieved on Nov 12, 2011 from http://www.biography.com/people/james-baldwin-9196635

™ James Baldwin. (2009). Retrieved on Nov 12, 2011 from http://www.american writers.org/writers.baldwin

™ James Baldwin. (Nov 9, 2011) Retrieved on Nov 12, 2011 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baldwin

™ James Baldwin Quotes. (2011) Retrieved on Nov 16, 2011 from http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/10427.James_Baldwin?page=1

™ Google Images