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| Author | James Baldwin |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Holt, Rinehart and Winston |
Publication date | 1985 |
| Publication place | United States |
The Evidence of Things Not Seen, a book-length essay by James Baldwin, covers the Atlanta murders of 1979–1981, often called the Atlanta Child Murders, and probes Atlanta's related social issues, especially race relations.[1][2] Baldwin had ventured to Atlanta as a literary reporter on assignment by Playboy magazine, which by then had published a considerable catalog by black writers, such as Alex Haley and James Farmer, offering social commentary. Walter Lowe, the magazine's first black editor, had proposed this assignment to Baldwin.[3] The resulting book's epigraph draws from Hebrews 11:1.
- ^ Renfro, Paul Mokrzycki (2015). "The City Too Busy to Care': The Atlanta Youth Murders and the Southern Past, 1979-81". Southern Cultures. 21 (4): 43–66. doi:10.1353/scu.2015.0050. S2CID 147583047.
- ^ "Atlanta Child Murders". FBI. Retrieved 2019-07-18.
- ^ Baldwin, James (1985). The Evidence of Things Not Seen. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. pp. VII. ISBN 978-0-8050-3939-9.