This document outlines a proposed PhD thesis on analyzing James Baldwin's novels in relation to human rights. It will examine 4 of Baldwin's novels - "Go Tell it on the Mountain", "Another Country", "Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone", and "If Beale Street could Talk" - to investigate how the white Americans violated the human rights of African Americans through racial discrimination and injustice depicted in Baldwin's works. The thesis will be divided into 6 chapters, with each chapter providing an in-depth analysis of one of the selected novels and discussing the human rights issues addressed within.