James Baldwin and Britain

Mention of Baldwin in article about U.S. race riots.

Source: The Observer

Observer, Aug 15, 1965. p.15

‘The Negro Revolt’, Patrick O'Donovan

Article about US race riots.

‘The rage of the Negro in the United States is out of control. Leaders of the constitutional and political struggle like Dr MLK are now rejected in the great cities of the north as inadequate…Negro intellectuals like James Baldwin refuse any sort of compromise. Indeed it is not easy to see quite what they want. They demand love and respect almost at the point of a gun. And increasingly they reject any attitude that does not entirely meet their tremendous demands…’