James Baldwin - Take This Hammer, 1964

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Published 2022-02-17

Author James Baldwin is taken on a tour of San Francisco by Orville Luster, Executive Director of Youth for Service. The tour takes them through the Hunters Point area, San Francisco's so-called "black ghetto," where 80 percent of the people are Negroes; through the Fillmore area, the "little Harlem"; and through the city's Western Addition redevelopment project - described by Mr. Baldwin as a "Negro removal" project. Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Luster talk to groups of Negroes from each area, as well as leaders of the Negro civic organizations and "action groups".

James Arthur Baldwin was an American writer and activist. As a writer, he garnered acclaim across various mediums, including essays, novels, plays, and poems

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All Comments (6)

@deborahfrederick916 2 years ago

I started reading James Baldwin 50 years ago. Listening to this commentary today is literally Mind Blowing. As a adult who lived in the Bay Area from 1979 to 1996, I had No Clue about 1960’s San Francisco. Thank you for sharing this film with us. I am struck again, as I was half a century ago, by how Brilliantly James Baldwin was able to articulate the horrors and the beauty of the Black experience in America. ESPECIALLY as it relates to our interaction with whyte people. The last Five minutes of this video was an entire book.
@ForrestMedia 1 year ago

What a gem of archival programming! I wish there was a way to identify some of the other people featured in this.
@amyfairytrixy 2 years ago

Thank you for posting this film!!!
@tx3973 2 years ago

So funny how this video speaks volumes to our current society for us blacks. Respect to this brotha 🤝🏽🤴🏾
@raphaelnewton6725 2 years ago

James Baldwin was the man of the people. It was a shame he didn't become an American President. He would surely been a great one of a kind.