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Bald·win

(bôldwĭn)

A variety of apple having red or red-and-yellow skin and yellowish flesh.

[After Loammi Baldwin (1745-1897), American engineer.]

Baldwin, Stanley First Earl Baldwin of Bewdley. 1867-1947.

British prime minister (1923-1929 and 1935-1937) who responded to the General Strike of 1926 with the Trade Disputes Act of 1927, an antiunion bill, and facilitated the abdication of Edward VIII (1936).

Baldwin, Roger Nash 1884-1981.

American civil rights activist. In 1918 he helped found the American Civil Liberties Union, which he directed from 1920 to 1950.

Baldwin, James Arthur 1924-1987.

American writer and outspoken critic of racism whose works include Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953), a novel, and Notes of a Native Son (1955), a collection of essays.

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James Baldwin

photographed in the 1980s

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