Title: Notes of a Native Son
First published: 1955
Description: Since its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written.
 
“A straight-from-the-shoulder writer, writing about the troubled problems of this troubled earth with an illuminating intensity.” —Langston Hughes, The New York Times Book Review
 
“Written with bitter clarity and uncommon grace.” —Time
Subjects: African Americans, Race relations, Social conditions, Civil rights, Afro-Americans, African americans, civil rights, African americans, social conditions, United states, race relations, Baldwin, james, 1924-1987, Negros
Places: United States
People: James Baldwin (1924-1987)
Time periods: To 1964