I Heard It Through the Grapevine (1982)
Renowned Black writer James Baldwin retraces his time in the South during the Civil Rights Movement, reflecting with his trademark brilliance and insight on the passage of more than two decades. From Selma and Birmingham and Atlanta; to the battleground beaches of St. Augustine, Florida, with Chinua Achebe; and back north for a visit to Newark with Amiri Baraka, Baldwin lays bare the fiction of progress in post–Civil Rights America, wondering “what happened to the children” and those 'who did not die, but whose lives were smashed on Freedom Road'.
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James Baldwin
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David Baldwin
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Chinua Achebe
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Amiri Baraka
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Sterling Brown
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David Dennis
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Hoyt Fuller
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Oretha Castle Haley
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Lonnie King
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Amanda Bowens Perdew
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Charles Sherrod
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Fred Lee Shuttlesworth
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Hosea Williams
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James Baldwin
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Pat Hartley
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Nigel Mercer
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Dick Fontaine
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Ivan Strasburg
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Pat Hartley
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Dick Fontaine
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