Mainstream American papers refused to publish Baldwin’s defense of Carmichael

Evidence

Baldwin finished his essay defending Carmichael just after the New Year, 1968, but both the London Times and The New York Times refused to publish it. Black Power and Carmichael were simply anathema in a country at war in Vietnam and with itself. The Manchester Guardian ran the piece, but it would not be picked up by an American outlet until The Los Angeles Free Press ran it in February. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 104

Categorization

• SHARE: A concrete publication-history fact worth sending to anyone tracking Baldwin’s marginalization — the LA Free Press, not the Times, carried his 1968 defense.