
03/03/1982
Renowned Black writer James Baldwin retraces his time in the South during the Civil Rights Movement, reflecting with his trademark brilliance and insight on the passage of more than two decades. From Selma and Birmingham and Atlanta; to the battleground beaches of St. Augustine, Florida, with Chinua Achebe; and back north for a visit to Newark with Amiri Baraka, Baldwin lays bare the fiction of progress in post–Civil Rights America, wondering “what happened to the children” and those 'who did not die, but whose lives were smashed on Freedom Road'.

James Baldwin
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David Baldwin
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Chinua Achebe
as Self

Amiri Baraka
as Self

Sterling Brown
as Self

David Dennis
as Self

Hoyt Fuller
as Self

Oretha Castle Haley
as Self

Lonnie King
as Self

Amanda Bowens Perdew
as Self

Charles Sherrod
as Self

Fred Lee Shuttlesworth
as Self

Hosea Williams
as Self
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