Baldwin, James, 1924-1987

  • Living and growing in a white world

    The author of Fire next time speaks to the students of Castlemont High School, a predominantly Black high school in Oakland, California, about living and growing in a white world. Recorded by KQED, and featuring a post-speech question and answer session moderated by a KQED correspondent.

  • Steal this revolution : expurgated / produced by Lucia Chappelle.

    Readings of literature of the counter culture of the 60’s. Censored version. Political Revolutionaries of the 60’s. Speakers include Kay Boyle, James Baldwin, Dave Dellinger, Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman and others in a collage of literature from the revolutionaries of the 60’s on the revolution and for the revolution. A poetic theatrical guide to the…

  • Baldwin at the Masonic Temple

    James Baldwin delivering one of the talks, on his hopes and plans for changing the modern world. This one was recorded at the Masonic Memorial Temple in San Francisco on the evening of May 7.

  • Dear Angela: James Baldwin on Angela Davis

    James Baldwin talks with Joe Walker (1934-2007), editor of the Nation of Islam’s newspaper “Muhammad Speaks” and author George Cain about the Angela Davis trial and the international attitude on America and its race issues at this time. Baldwin then reads his “An open letter to my sister, Angela Davis.” This program, number 7137 of…

  • Freedom summer in Los Angeles (Part 1 of 2)

    An audio mosaic of people and sounds which tells the events of the integration struggles of the summer of 1963 in Los Angeles. It represents the four areas of concern as they are met locally by Negro leaders: housing, education, employment and police practices. The sources of the material run the full range of diversity…

  • Free and brave / James Baldwin.

    James Baldwin talks about American history from the Negro view. Recorded by Lorenz Graham at the Second Baptist Church in Los Angeles.

  • A conversation with James Baldwin

    Elsa Knight Thompson and John Leonard, Director of literature and drama, talk with the author of “The fire next time” and “Nobody knows my name” about both literary and political matters. Among other things, Baldwin discusses what comes after Birmingham in the civil rights movement, and why the critics attacked his novel “Another country.”

  • 100 years of freedom / James Baldwin.

    James Baldwin gives a talk at the University of California at Berkeley on the fight for Black Civil rights since the Emancipation Proclamation.

  • Beyond the Black metropolis

    Sociologist and author Horace Cayton interviewed by Jack Nessel. Discussion of the status of Blacks in the United States, the development of a Black culture, and Cayton’s friendship and time in Chicago with African American author Richard Wright. Wright is famous for his book Native Son, and he wrote the introduction to Cayton’s Black metropolis: a…