16 July, 1963: 10

‘The Private Hell of Being Black’, Anne Sharpley

Review of The Fire Next Time.

Anne Sharpley writes: ‘If, in a brief and terrible plunge, you wish to know the hell it is to be a Negro in America, read these two essays. If you have not already realised that the problems of race are the real preoccupation of this century then James Baldwin will convince you’.