James Baldwin was as eloquent and persuasive a speaker as he was a writer. Below, several film clips of Baldwin in interviews and, finally, at a roundtable following the 1963 March on Washington.

A biographical overview of James Baldwin

James Baldwin and Embracing the “Other”

James  Baldwin asks, “Who is the nigger?”

“Why are you afraid of him?”

The Washington March of 1963: roundtable discussion with James Baldwin, Marlon Brando, Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Charlton Heston, and Joseph Mankiewicz.