James Baldwin’s works used for the narration of I Am Not Your Negro:
“As Much Truth As One Can Bear.” New York Times Book Review, January 14, 1962. Collected in The Cross of Redemption.
“Black English: A Dishonest Argument.” In Black English and the Education of Black Children and Youth: Proceedings of the National Invitational Symposium on the King Decision. Detroit: Center for Black Studies, Wayne State University, 1980. Collected in The Cross of Redemption.
The Cross of Redemption. New York: Pantheon Books, 2010.
The Devil Finds Work. New York: Vintage Books, 1976, 2011.
Letter from James Baldwin to Jay Acton, June 30, 1979. In “Notes Toward Remember This House,” October 28, 1980.
“Lorraine Hansberry at the Summit.” Freedomways, no. 19 (1979): 269–72. Collected in The Cross of Redemption.
“Mass Culture and the Creative Artist: Some Personal Notes.” In Culture for the Millions: Mass Media in Modern Society, edited by Norman Jacobs. Princeton, N. J.: Van Nostrand, 1959. Collected in The Cross of Redemption.
From Nationalism, Colonialism, and the United States: One Minute to 12! A Forum Sponsored by the Liberation Committee for Africa on Its First Anniversary Celebration, June 2, 1961. New York: Photo-Offset Press, 1961. Collected in The Cross of Redemption.
“The News from All the Northern Cities Is, to Understate It, Grim; the State of the Union Is Catastrophic.” New York Times, April 5, 1978. Collected in The Cross of Redemption.
No Name in the Street. New York: Vintage Books, 1972.
“Sidney Poitier.” Look, July 23, 1968. Collected in The Cross of Redemption.
“The White Problem.” In 100 Years of Emancipation, edited by Robert A. Goodwin. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1964. Collected in The Cross of Redemption.