Baldwin-Buckley race debate still resonates 55 years on 9m
"James Baldwin & the Fear of a Nation"
•Feb 16, 2020
Note: In a 1957 article in National Review Buckley said white southerners were entitled to take whatever measures "necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, over black citizens."
PBS NewsHour
It has been 55 years since civil-rights activist, James Baldwin, and founder of the conservative National Review, William F. Buckley, Jr., met for a debate on race in America. That discussion and the lives of the two cultural giants are subjects of a new book, "The Fire is Upon Us." Zachary Green spoke with author and political scientist Nicholas Buccola about how the debate's still resonating.