| Author Quoted | James Baldwin |
| Title Quoted | Fire Next Time |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1963/02/19 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : Dial Press. 1963 |
| Quotation | One of the things I did read was a manifesto by the Negro writer James Baldwin on the race situation. It is powerful and great. I even gave the publisher a blurb for it, which may get me hanged some day. But it is a tremendous and stirring document. Called The Fire Next Time. |
| Quotation Source | The Road to Joy: Letters to New and Old Friends.; Edited by Robert E. Daggy. / [S.l.] : Flame. 1990, p. 244 |
| Letter to | Sister Therese Lenfoehr, s.d.s. |
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