Multimedia Collection
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
VHS
87 minutes
PS3552 .A45 Z541 1989
James Baldwin (1924-1987) was at once a major twentieth century American author, a Civil Rights activist and, for two crucial decades, a prophetic voice calling Americans, black and white, to confront their shared racial tragedy. James Baldwin: the Price of the Ticket captures on film the passionate intellect and courageous writing of a man who was born black, impoverished, gifted and gay.
Writers Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, Ishmael Reed and William Styron place Baldwin's major works (including Notes of a Native Son, Another Country and The First Fire) within the context of African American literature and the broader Civil Rights struggle. This intellectual biography will, as the Philadelphia Inquirer says, "make you want to race to the library to read Baldwin's books themselves."
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