Taking a “Walk with James Baldwin”
In James Baldwin’s first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953),
the main character walks from his Harlem home through Central
Park into Midtown, where he passes the 42nd Street main
building of The New York Public Library. Baldwin often made this
journey himself. Today, as part of NYPL’s celebration of Baldwin’s
centennial year, this “Walk with James Baldwin” connects two momentous exhibitions that examine his extraordinary life, literary career, and activism.
“I went to the 135th Street Library at least 3 or 4 times a week, and I read everything there—I mean every single book in that library . . . I was looking in books for a bigger world than the world in which I lived.”
—James Baldwin
ROUTES Feature: Just Above My Head by James Baldwin
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