I Heard It Through the Grapevine (1982)

James Baldwin retraces his time in the South during the Civil Rights Movement reflecting with his trademark brilliance and insight on the passage of more than two decades From Selma and Birmingham and Atlanta to the battleground beaches of St Augustine Florida with Chinua Achebe and back north for a visit to Newark with Amiri Baraka Baldwin lays bare the fiction of progress in postCivil Rights America wondering what happened to the children and those who did not die but whose lives were smashed on Freedom Road