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The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Reissued Edition
A work of Non-fiction by James Baldwin
Subgenres:
- True Crime,
- Race Relations,
- Atlanta
This book is for you if you're into...
- True crime interrogating race, justice, and institutional failure
- Deep dives into historical tragedies with urgent social critique
Over twenty-two months in 1979 and 1981 nearly two dozen children were unspeakably murdered in Atlanta despite national attention and outcry; they were all Black.
James Baldwin investigated these murders, the Black administration in Atlanta, and Wayne Williams, the Black man tried for the crimes.
Because there was only evidence to convict Williams for the murders of two men, the children's cases were closed, offering no justice to the families or the country.
Baldwin's incisive analysis implicates the failures of integration as the guilt party, arguing, "There could be no more devastating proof of this assault than the slaughter of the children."
In this, his last book, by excavating American race relations Baldwin exposes the hard-to-face ingrained issues and demands that we all reckon with them.
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