📡 RSS: The Moving Letter James Baldwin Received from His Childhood Teacher at the Peak of His Fame and His Heartbreak — In early 1934, a twenty-four-year-old graduate student at Columbia Teachers College took an internship teaching drama and producing student plays at PS 24 in Harlem. Among her young charges at that “dreadful ancient New York schoolhouse,” as she would later recall, was a ten-year-old boy she was ast