All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturit…

James A. Baldwin
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All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the wonder is not that so many are ruined but that so many survive. ✨ The Harlem Ghetto by James A. Baldwin in Commentary, February 1948, republished in James A. Baldwin Notes of a Native Son, 1955.
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