No Name in the Street
First US edition cover
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| Author | James Baldwin |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Essays |
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Dial Press (US) Michael Joseph (UK) |
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Publication date
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1972 |
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No Name in the Street is American writer and poet James Baldwin's fourth non-fiction book and was first published in 1972. It depicts several historical events and figures from Baldwin's perspective: Francisco Franco, McCarthyism and Martin Luther King's death, as well as Malcolm X, Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, and the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The book also covers the Algerian War and Albert Camus's take on it.
In vivid detail, Baldwin also recounts the Harlem childhood that shaped his early consciousness, the later painful historic events—the murders of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X along with his stay in Europe and in Hollywood and his return to the American South to confront a violent America.
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, planned by A. Philip Randolph, founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, took place in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963, and was the largest demonstration in the nation's capital, and one of the first to have extensive television coverage. It promoted civil rights and equality for African Americans, and at it, Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech.
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