Film · 1964 · 30m

My Childhood Part 2: James Baldwin’s Harlem

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Synopsis

James Baldwin narrates how his early years in Harlem made him alive to the forces at work in the city and American society to manage the black population. Describing the economic and visual disparity of New York’s famed Fifth Avenue that runs through Manhattan and Harlem, Baldwin reminds us that the “avenue is elsewhere the renowned and elegant Fifth,” but venturing north “we find ourselves on wide, filthy, hostile Fifth Avenue, facing a project which hangs over the avenue like a monument to the folly, and cowardice of good intentions.”

Details

Director
Arthur Barron
Release
January 1, 1964
Status
Released
Runtime
30m

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