Guardian, Nov 23, 1971. p.10

‘Getting it Straight’, Pierre Salinger

Salinger reviews the Bedside Guardian anthology which includes JB’s letter to Angela Davis: ‘The final phrase in the article with which the anthology begins, a letter from JB to AD, has now become famous as the title of Miss Davis’s book published recently: “For, if they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us at night.” The letter is a forceful waypoint in the evolving and hardening view of Black America. “The enormous revolution in Black consciousness which has occurred in your generation, my dear sister, means the beginning of the end for America”, writes Baldwin’.