... benediction at President Obama's inauguration, where he experienced first-hand an extraordinary result of King's life goal (Eversley). "I heard sounds emanating from the Lincoln Memorial, and I heard a voice of a Baptist preacher coming from those steps. ...

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... born on August 2, 1924 in Harlem, New York. He was an illegitimate child to Emma Berdis Jones. Soon after Baldwin's birth his mother remarried. Baldwin's step father, David Baldwin, was a preacher who had followed the Great Migration North from his home in New Orleans in the 1920. Together, they had eight other children. James Baldwin never knew his biological father and ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School