James Baldwin

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    birth

    James Baldwin was born August 2 1924 in New York City (NY)
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    accomplishments

    James Baldwin was one of the 20th century greatest winters the broke new literary ground with the exploration of racial and social issues. He especially known on black american.
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    Death

    James died December 1,1987
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    Contributions

    Baldwin had with so much so much violence in the previous decade
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    Early Life

    Baldwin was born to a young single mother Emma Jones. She never told him the name of his biological father. His mother married a Baptist minister named David Baldwin when he was three years old.
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    Education

    growing up James Baldwin faced many obstacles and one was his education. He went to Clinton High School in the Bronx. He worked on school magazines as literary educator but disliked school because of the contrast racial slaves.