James Baldwin 
No Name in the Street [EPUB ebook] 

’Candid, insightful, moving . . . a memoir, a chronicle of and commentary on America’s abortive civil-rights movement’ -The New York Times In this deeply personal book, Baldwin reflects on the experiences that shaped him as a writer and activist: from his childhood in Harlem to the deaths Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. Exploring the visceral reality of life in the American South as well as Baldwin s impressions of London, Paris and Hamburg, No Name in the Street grapples with the failed promises of global liberation movements in fearless, candid prose. Timeless, tender and profound, Baldwin s searing narrative contains the multiplicities of what it means to be Black in America and, indeed, around the world.