Collected Essays

James Baldwin was a unique and prophetic voice in American letters. His brilliant and provocative essays made him the literary voice of the Civil Rights movement and of the struggle for racial equality in America, and they continue to speak with powerful urgency to us today, whether in the swirling debate over race and racism today or in the words of Raoul Peck's documentary I Am Not Your Negro. Edited by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, this Library of America collection contains all of Baldwin's nonfiction, including his most famous essays on race and democracy, such as The Harlem Ghetto, Everybody's Protest Novel, Many Thousands Gone: Lost Black Writing from the Harlem Renaissance, and Stranger in the Village.