Hidden Black history of James Baldwin

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Hidden Black history of James Baldwin

(Courtesy of Carl Van Vechten) Highlighting an overlooked civil rights pillar BY KARLOS CORIA, STAFF WRITER James Baldwin was set to speak before Martin Luther King Jr. at the historic March on Washington in 1963. However, the organizers barred him, saying he would be “too inflammatory.” Silenced that day, Baldwin was set to fade from America’s memory, another person disappearing into the nation’s “shadow history.”  During Black History Month, t…