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James Baldwin: The Fire Next Time (Hardcover, 1963, Franklin Watts) 5 stars

A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, "The Fire Next Time" galvanized the …

don't put it off

5 stars

Short enough I'm not sure it's worth summarizing - the opening 7 page letter to his nephew covers nearly all the ground the following essay bores into - but in short, integration won't truly happen until white people take the log out of their own eye about their shortcomings and intolerance, and black people are going to have to keep suffering for it - but there is no future path for America except integration and living together in love that goes well beyond what religion practices in America. Extremely relevant to this day.