Seeing news coverage of what happened to Counts compelled Baldwin to return to the U.S. 4, 1957, white mobs spit on 15-year-old Dorothy Counts as she entered a newly-integrated school in Charlotte, N.C. While his career was already developing, there was one incident in that period that he would later single out as a starting point for his identity as a voice on civil rights. And the history of this problem can be reduced to the means used by Americans - lynch law and law, segregation and legal acceptance, terrorization and concession - either to come to terms with this necessity, or to find a way around it, or (most usually) to find a way of doing both these things at once.” He began to get more recognition among the general population for his critiques of American history, such as his 1955 anthology Notes of a Native Son, in which he wrote: “At the root of the American Negro problem is the necessity of the American white man to find a way of living with the Negro in order to be able to live with himself. In Paris, he wrote Go Tell It On the Mountain - a semi-autobiographical 1953 novel about his stepfather, a stern preacher - and Giovanni’s Room, a novel that takes place within a circle of Parisian gay life, in 1956. He would spend the rest of his life splitting his time between the United States and France.
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