James Baldwin
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James Arthur Baldwin was an American writer and civil rights activist who garnered acclaim for his essays, novels, plays, and poems. His 1953 novel Go Tell It on the Mountain has been ranked by Time m
Baldwin in 1969
Baldwin in Los Angeles, 1964
Baldwin photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1955
Café de Flore, Boulevard Saint-Germain, Paris, May 2019. In the large upstairs heated room (SALLE AU 1er – CLIMATISÉE) in 1952 Baldwin worked on his first novel Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953).
African-American literature
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African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. Phillis Wheatley was an enslaved African woman who became the first African American
Phillis Wheatley (c.1753–1784)
Frederick Douglass
Portrait of W.E.B. DuBois, photographed in 1918
Langston Hughes, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1936