This belief was clear in his unflinching critiques of American society and active participation in the civil rights movement. In the 1940s, Baldwin’s literary career started to take off when ...

In the Black Power era, he was seen as a rebel artist, the "Malcolm X of literature ... and held office during the years when the civil rights movement achieved its first milestones.

Kennedy, and others who made the movement move. And we now know the story behind a photograph of Simpkins, RFK, and MLK that appeared in widely-distributed civil-rights era literature. Busses from ...