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The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
A 1929 photograph showing children playing on a lamppost in Harlem.

A 1929 photograph showing children playing on a lamppost in Harlem.

Citation Information
“There are few playgrounds in Harlem. Negro children must play on the streets,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/a95312a4bb1f7630293b0d0b13532e7d.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
Courtesy of The New York Public Library.

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Item 3 of 12 in the Primary Source Set The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

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A portrait of James Baldwin by Boris Chaliapin from 1963, the year in which The Fire Next Time was published.
A Memphis World article about James Baldwin’s early life and education, 1967.
A 1929 photograph showing children playing on a lamppost in Harlem.
A photograph of a street scene along Lenox Avenue in Harlem, 1939.
A photograph of Harlem residents in front of a shop listening to a radio, 1930s.
A photograph of four African American World War II draftees, 1944.
An excerpt from When the Word is Given: A Report on Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X and the Black Muslim World by Louis Lomax, 1963.
Excerpt from the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” written by Martin Luther King Jr., 1963.
A video clip of civil rights protesters arrested in Danville, Virginia, 1963.
A video clip of Malcolm X commenting on the lack of protection for protesters in Birmingham, 1963.
An excerpt from a 1982 oral history interview with Gloria Jean Howard mentioning Baldwin’s 1963 visit to Greensboro, NC.
A photograph of James Baldwin during a speaking engagement for the benefit of CORE (Congress of Racial Equality), May 1963.

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