James Baldwin greets college students, 1973

(Regis Bossu/Stars and Stripes)
Ludwigsburg, Germany, Feb. 16, 1973: James Baldwin indicators autographs as college students crowd round at Ludwigsburg Excessive Faculty. The novelist, essayist and playwright, on the town for the Black Literature and Tradition Week, stopped by the highschool to speak to the scholars and reply their questions. “I favor talking to children. I discover adults usually ask a query to get themselves off some hook,” he would later say at an occasion at Stuttgart’s Liederhalle.

(Regis Bossu/Stars and Stripes)
Ludwigsburg, Germany, Feb. 16, 1973: James Baldwin indicators autographs as college students crowd round at Ludwigsburg Excessive Faculty. The novelist, essayist and playwright, on the town for the Black Literature and Tradition Week, stopped by the highschool to speak to the scholars and reply their questions. “I favor talking to children. I discover adults usually ask a query to get themselves off some hook,” he would later say at an occasion at Stuttgart’s Liederhalle.