James Baldwin. Steve Schapiro: The Fire Next Time

$20.00 at Art Institute of Chicago.

All the grief, grit, and unassailable dignity of the civil rights movement are evoked in this centennial edition of James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time, with photographs by Steve Schapiro. Together, Baldwin’s frank account of the black experience and Schapiro’s vital images offer testimony to one of the most important struggles of American society. First published in 1963, James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time stabbed at the heart of America’s so-called “Negro problem.” As remarkable for its masterful prose as…