James Baldwin's I Am Not Your Negro

“I Am Not Your Negro,” is not a documentary on Baldwin, and yet it is. The bright, infuriating and countless educated African American writer who belongs on any waiting list of the most significant American intellectuals of the 20th century. It is also a lot of other things, incorporating a visual-poetic paper outlining the surprising threads of similarity between America today and America in the mid-1960s , also an aim to intertwine the stories of 3 important Black leaders killed in that era, whom James knew well: Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X , and Medgar Evers. In the late ’70s, James set out to compose a book about those 3 men that he never completed. His incomplete notes for that assignment, which he intend to call “Remember This House,” are the beginning point for Peck’s movie. Furthermore, “I Am Not Your Negro” provides a restatement of Baldwin’s crucial objection to white Americans. Even

His parent had 9 children, he was the first born. His father was an ecclesiastic and an industrial worker, and was the origin of all of James Baldwin's horror. His mother's name was Berdis and she was a homemaker. James first beginning writing around age of 14 as a way of searching the love which he was lacking from his family. At this time Baldwin went to DeWitt Clinton High School and also Frederick Douglass Junior High School. During his academic years, He won many awards for his writing skills. The joy that Baldwin sense from having his classmate praise his work was outshined, Nevertheless, by his father's objection of his non-Christian-oriented writing. James Baldwin's father was a very creed Christian who forced Baldwin to go to church every sunday. For some years (from ages 14 through 17), James was even a clergyman. It was the sad attraction of the church which James said turned him into a author. Those few years of lost driving opened James Baldwin's' eyes to the reality that he was in need of self analysis