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James Baldwin and the Duty of Education

21MayAdam M. Sowardseducation, historyinequality, James Baldwin

In 1963, James Baldwin published “A Talk to Teachers” in Saturday Review. (When he gave the speech, Baldwin called it “The Negro Child–His Self-Image.”) As many of his essays did, this piece showed America as it was, not as it was imagined or mythologized. Sadly, his reminders remain relevant half a century later. 

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