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Essays

The Fire Next Time

By James Baldwin

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Baldwin opens with a letter to his nephew about growing up Black in America. A longer essay looks back on his youth as a preacher in Harlem and considers his encounter with the Nation of Islam. Read together, the essays ask what it would take for Americans to face their history and take responsibility for one another.

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Edition and subjects

ISBN-13
9780531003121
Publisher
Franklin Watts
Edition date
1963
First published
1963
African American Literary Legends Black History & Heritage Civil rights Religion Civil Rights era Adults