Kenan, Randall

Contains a biography of African-American writer James Baldwin, and includes information on his academic life, his influences, his outsider life as a preacher in Harlem, and his role as an activist in the Civil Rights Movement. Includes chronology and bibliography.

Examines the lives, thoughts, and feelings of African-Americans in the post-Civil Rights era of the 1990s, based on interviews with approximately two hundred men and women conducted throughout the country over the course of six years.

Describes the life of the writer James Baldwin, focusing on his experiences as an African-American civil rights worker and as a gay man.