Over twenty-two months in 1979 and 1981 nearly two dozen children were unspeakably murdered in Atlanta despite national attention and outcry; they were all Black. James Baldwin investigated these murders, the Black administration in Atlanta, and Wayne Williams, the Black man tried for the crimes. Because there was only evidence to convict Williams for the murders of two men, the children's cases were closed, offering no justice to the families or the country. Baldwin's incisive analysis implicates the failures of integration as the guilt party, arguing, "There could be no more devastating proof of this assault than the slaughter of the children."As Stacey Abrams writes in her foreword, "The humanity of black children, of black men and women, of black lives, has ever been a conundrum for America. Forty years on, Baldwin's writing reminds us that we have never resolved the core query: Do black lives matter? Unequivocally, the moral answer is yes, but James Baldwin refuses...

Lightyear Press

United States, United States of America

Cutchogue, N.Y, 1998?

Cutchogue NY, 1995

Apr 01, 1998

<p>this Edition Of A Classic Work By One Of America&#8217;s Premier Writers Offers A New Foreword By Derrick Bell (with Janet Dewart Bell) To The 1995 Paperback Edition, And Is As Meaningful Today As It Was When It Was First Published In 1985. In His Searing And Moving Essay, James Baldwin Explores The Atlanta Child Murders That Took Place Over A Period Of Twenty-two Months In 1979 And 1980. Examining This Incident With A Reporter&#8217;s Skill And An Essayist&#8217;s Insight, He Notes The Significance Of Atlanta As The Site Of These Brutal Killings&#8212;a City That Claimed To Be &#8220;too Busy To Hate&#8221;&#8212;and The Permeation Of Race Throughout The Case&#58; The Black Administration In Atlanta; The Murdered Black Children; And Wayne Williams, The Black Man Tried For The Crimes. Rummaging Through The Ruins Of American Race Relations, Baldwin Addresses All The Hard-to-face Issues That Have Brought Us A Moment In History Where It Is Terrifying To To Be A Black Child In White America, And Where, Too Often, Public Officials Fail To Ask Real Questions About &#8220;justice For All.&#8221; Baldwin Takes A Time-specific Event And Makes It Timeless&#58; The Evidence Of Things Not Seen Offers An Incisive Look At Race In America Through A Lens At Once Disturbing And Profoundly Revealing.<br></p>

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