American writer noted for his novels on sexual and personal identity and sharp essays on civil rights struggle in the United States. Although he spent a great deal of his life abroad, James Baldwin always remained as an essential American writer whether he was working in Paris or Istanbul, he never ceased to reflect to his experience as black man in white America. In numerous essays, novels, plays and public speeches, the eloquent voice of James Baldwin spoke of the pain and struggle of black Americans and saving power of brotherhood. Overwhelmed with responsibility to the times, Baldwin returned to take part in civil rights movement. Traveling throughout the south, he began to work on an explosive work about black identity and state of racial struggle, THE FIRST NEXT TIME (1963). For many, NOTES FOR A NATIVE SON and THE FIRST NEXT TIME, were an early and primary voice in the civil rights movement. The struggles of black American was unlike anything that had been written in the early 1960s.Once he said, " we are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only sentient force in which can change it. Baldwin always was continuously conscious of the hypocrisies and injustices in the world around him and as writer, he strove to make his audience aware of the possibility that people could do and be better. He reported, criticized, analyzed, attacked, sang, made us think and made us consciously human. During the last ten years of his life, Baldwin produced a number of important works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, and turned to teaching as a new way of connecting with the young.
             And now its up to new generations of black student, youth activists, professionals and intellectuals must discover their mission if African in America and the world to make further progress along the path to full freedom and liberation. The signs are that this task will be no less difficult than that faced by previous ...