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How Did Baldwin Contribute To The Civil Rights Movement

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The American civil rights movement was the largest social movement of the twentieth century and was a popular movement towards equality for African Americans. While civil rights movements go back centuries, this movement swelled in the mid 1900s. The movement was lead on small scale to national levels, led by blacks and whites alike. One of these prominent civil rights activists was James Baldwin. A man of incredible literary talent, Baldwin created a niche in American literature of the 1900s due to his ability to use his novels to connect to those who were suffering or discriminated against during the time of change in American. Because James Baldwin utilizes the concept that true salvation and happiness can only be attained by suffering and
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