The James Baldwin Anthology (2003)

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The James Baldwin Anthology
The James Baldwin Anthology consists of internationally known writer James Baldwins historic speech at UC Berkeley in 1979 his answers in a dialogue with Malcom X in the 60s and series of original mixed media images done by Claire Burch as a memorial after his death in 1987 Following this material is an additional half hour which contains an interview with the late Professor Erskine Peters who was host to Jimmy at this time and footage of a session at Codys Bookstore in Berkeley California where author David Lemming reads from his biography of Jimmy and describes Baldwins sad and funny efforts to bring a close friend the painter Beauford Delaney from a psychiatric unit in France to Turkey where Jimmy was living at the time
DirectorClaire Burch