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Lay Bare the Heart
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Lay Bare the Heart: An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement is a 1985 non-fiction book by James Farmer, published by Arbor House in 1985. A subsequent edition is published by Texas Christian University Press. It documents his role in the Civil rights movement.
Background
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Circa 1966 he began organizing his notes that would be used to make an autobiography.[1]
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The book has descriptions of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King.[2]
"Intellectual Coming of Age," the fourth part, describes how the Harlem Renaissance and the Civil rights movement developed creative and intellectual life.[3]
"God and Goddamn," the twelfth chapter, describes how Farmer navigated social life in Washington, DC.[4]
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Reception
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Reviewer Beth Brown wrote that the work is "highly emotional, yet coolly accurate and objective".[1]
David Levering Lewis of Rutgers University wrote that the book is "strikingly human", and that it has "an appearance of honesty" and "extraordinary eloquence and emotional power."[5]
It won the Lillian Smith Book Award in 1985.[6]
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