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James Baldwin

James Baldwin was born on August 2, 1924, and at age twelve took Countee Cullen’s French class at Frederick Douglass Junior High School, though he may have later forgotten about it. He would interview Cullen several years later for the DeWitt Clinton High School newspaper, and abandoned poetry after Cullen told him his work reminded him of Langston Hughes. He worked as a child preacher, laid railroad track in New Jersey, and toiled in a New York meatpacking plant. “By…

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