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August 2nd

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  1. 1924
    The Rise

    James Baldwin born

    James Arthur Baldwin is born in Harlem Hospital. He writes Go Tell It on the Mountain, Notes of a Native Son, The Fire Next Time, and Giovanni's Room, and becomes one of the most consequential American essayists of the twentieth century.

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