What:
Online Facilitated Book Discussion via Zoom
James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time
Who:
Hosted by the Lydia Taft Pratt Library in Dummerston and facilitated by Library Director Dena Marger
Where, When:
Mar 30, 2021 06:00 PM Eastern Time
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/96122155826?pwd=YU1WWFhNMGpCeFlzUEpaNU1iVlU3dz09
How:
Contact the library to get a copy of the book.
802-258-9878
dummerstonvtlibrary@gmail.com
Why:
From Goodreads:
"A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document. It consists of two "letters," written on the occasion of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that exhort Americans, both black and white, to attack the terrible legacy of racism. Described by The New York Times Book Review as "sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle…all presented in searing, brilliant prose," The Fire Next Time stands as a classic of our literature."
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