Born in Harlem, NY, in 1924, James Baldwin had a calling from a young age to be a writer and activist during the Civil Rights ...

Like the activists leading the U.S. civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s ... before the Committee on the Militia," Mar. 3, 1853, Robert Morris Papers, Boston Athenaeum Morris witnessed and ...

One of the African American writers who galvanized a second black Renaissance — the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s — the prolific Baraka produced poems, plays, essays, fiction and music ...