“James Baldwin retraces his time in the South during the Civil Rights Movement with his trademark brilliance and insight on the passage of more than two decades. From Selma to Birmingham, Atlanta to the battleground beaches of St. Augustine, Florida, accompanied by Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, and back north for a visit to Newark with Amiri Baraka, Baldwin lays bare the fiction of progress in post-Civil Rights America — wondering ‘what happened to those who did not die, but whose lives were smashed on Freedom Road.’” – Rich Blint, writer and James Baldwin scholar. (Dick Fontaine and Pat Hartley, 1982, DCP, 82 minutes)
Recently restored by the Harvard Film Archive in celebration of James Baldwin’s centennial.
Part of the Celebrate Black Art & History on Screen series.