Citizen James Meet a 24-year-old James Baldwin at LaGuardia Airport. Young James is an unknown aspiring “Negro” writer whose first novel hasyet to bepublished. He awaitshis flight, having just left his family with the news of his decisionto flee America for refuge in Paris. He speaks no French. He has a one-way ticket and $40in his pocket. Witness James Baldwin as he decides he must do something to savehimself from the violent reality of racist America in 1948,a decision that sets him on the path to becoming a brilliant, powerful, andprophetic voiceof the Civil Rights eraand beyond.
Photograph by Richard Avedon
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