Observer, August 25, 1963. p.24

‘Big March portents’, Maurice Richardson

TV review. Talks about coverage on the BBC of the build-up to a civil rights march in Washington. Richardson: ‘If it hadn’t been for James Baldwin I might have rolled complacently into bed…But Baldwin, besides being peculiarly eloquent and cogent about the persisting fact of colour prejudice and the emptiness of white liberal gestures, is one of the most infallible screen-stealers on either side of the Atlantic. His appearance, like an intellectual Bush Baby, is instantly captivating. His image remains on the retina long after the switch-off…’.