Read “Previous Condition” by James Baldwin and “The Evening and the Morning and the Night” by Octavia E. Butler. Both are in Fifty Great Short Stories. Then, in the Reply box below write a response essay with at least 500 words of your own writing (no quotations). Put the word count at the top of your submission. Also respond to a few of your fellow students.
Both of these writers are literary giants. Baldwin’s stories and essays help sustain the fight for racial justice to this day. Butler’s innovative and startling science fiction novels have forever affected the genre by uplifting it into the realm of great literature.
