The Boston Globe, December 3rd, 1987
The call for equality, freedom and tolerance echoes in the works of James Baldwin as surely as sound reverberates from a mountaintop. It is the call of all black people for an end to the irrational hatred that has allowed them to share the responsibility for repelling foreign enemies while depriving them of a fair share of the nation's blessings. On Tuesday, James Baldwin died at his home in France. Baldwin was born in 1924 in Harlem. He was the son of a poor Baptist minister, and at the age of 14 had a brief career of his own as a minister. The debilitating effects of racial discrimination an...
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