1. Jennifer Mifflin

2.   Born: August 2, 1924 in Harlem, New York  Served as Youth Minister in a Harlem Pentecostal church. Ages 14-16  Started writing to escape step father  Graduated High school in 1942 Early Life

3.   Worked for high school’s magazine  Greenwich Village  Paris Aspiring Writer “Once I found myseld on the other side of the ocean, I see where I came from clearly…I am the grandson of a slave, and I am a writer”

4.   Wrote about racial and sexual issues  Notes of a Native Son (1955) Nobody Knows My Name: More notes of a Native Son(1961)  Going to Meet the Man (1960)  Teaching the Whites  The Fire Next Time (1963)  “You write in order to change the world... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.” ― James BaldwinJames Baldwin Views shown in his Writings

5.   Leader in the Civil Right Movement  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MruG888gH50& feature=player_embedded&noredirect=1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MruG888gH50& feature=player_embedded&noredirect=1  Gay Rights Movements Views

6.   Novels:  Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953)  Giovanni’s Room (1954)  Plays  The Amen Corner (1954)  Short Stories  Going to Meet the Man (1965) Works

7.   “James Baldwin was a novelist and playwright who wrote about racial and sexual issues in the mid-20th century, especially pertaining to black life in America.”  Died December 1, 1987 in Fance Best Known For

8.   James Baldwin. (2011). Biography.com. Retrieved on Nov 12, 2011 from http://www.biography.com/people/james-baldwin-9196635  James Baldwin. (2009). Retrieved on Nov 12, 2011 from http://www.american writers.org/writers.baldwin  James Baldwin. (Nov 9, 2011) Retrieved on Nov 12, 2011 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baldwin  James Baldwin Quotes. (2011) Retrieved on Nov 16, 2011 from http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/10427.James_Baldwin?p age=1  Google Images References