No name in the street

About this book

This stunningly personal document and extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies displays James Baldwins fury and despair more deeply than any of his other works. In vivid detail he remembers the Harlem childhood that shaped his early conciousness the later events that scored his heart with painthe murders of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X his sojourns in Europe and in Hollywood and his retum to the American South to confront a violent America face-to-face.