
Renowned Black writer James Baldwin retraces his time in the South during the Civil Rights Movement, reflecting with his trademark brilliance and insight on the passage of more than two decades. From Selma and Birmingham and Atlanta; to the battleground beaches of St. Augustine, Florida, with Chinua Achebe; and back north for a visit to Newark with Amiri Baraka, Baldwin lays bare the fiction of progress in post–Civil Rights America, wondering “what happened to the children” and those 'who did not die, but whose lives were smashed on Freedom Road'.

James Baldwin
Cast

David Baldwin
Cast

Chinua Achebe
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Amiri Baraka


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March 3, 1982
1h 32m
6.5
Pat Hartley
James Baldwin
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Living Archives Inc.
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Self

Sterling Brown
Self

David Dennis
Self

Hoyt Fuller
Self

Oretha Castle Haley
Self

Lonnie King
Self

Amanda Bowens Perdew
Self
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