Guardian, April 19, 1965. p.5

'Review, Baldwin's Amen Corner in New York', Hella Pick.

Review of Broadway production of Amen Corner by Hella Pick, in which she contrasts JB’s approach to civil rights in AC to that of Blues for Charlie:

‘Its criticism of the American condition as it affects the Negro is not nearly as harsh as Blues for Charlie…it has much humour that is less evident in some of JB’s more recent writings, and it catches significantly the idiom of the Northern Negro…NY critics have given it a fairly good reception, even though they remain far from convinced that Baldwin is a born playwright’.