Fred's Used Bookstore
James Baldwin: The Evidence of Things Not Seen
Regular price
$13.00 USD
Regular price
Sale price
$13.00 USD
Unit price
per
Shipping calculated at checkout.
Couldn't load pickup availability
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."
