Martin Hillman, ‘Ghettos and Uprisings’, Jan 14, 1972, Tribune, Volume 36, Issue 2, p. 11.

A review of Daddy was a Number Runner by Louise Meriwether, for which Baldwin wrote a foreword: ‘Miss Meriweather rides in on the cottails of James Baldwin who tells us that this is probably the first time we will see the ghetto of Harlem from the viewpoint of a black girl “on the edge of a terrifying womanhood.” He is right, but the author’s talents need no such escort’.