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James Baldwin

    Contemporary color photo of a mural of James Baldwin. The mural features an image of Baldwin, which is painted gray with blue highlights and depicts the activist in a reflective pose. A quote from Baldwin’s THE FIRE NEXT TIME is hand-printed in black letters, the words distributed in several white bubbles arrayed against a red backdrop that frames the entire mural. The quote is: THE POWER OF THE WHITE WORLD IS THREATENED WHENEVER THE BLACK WORLD REFUSES TO ACCEPT THE WHITE WORLD’S DEFINITION.

    James Baldwin, the provocative writer who understood the radical ideas that bonded Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

    June 2020
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    Photo by Elizabeth Schulman, North Carolina Collection, downtown Durham protest, NCC_0238_0029 (Identifier), Durham County Public Library. Mural artist is Anthony Patterson, MDC, 307 West Main Street.