The Ethics Of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch

Brandon Bush
10/30/2016s
Professor Betty LaFalce
English Composition 2
Laws without Peace Jim Crow Laws stripped blacks people of equal rights. These laws demoralized blacks, they left an everlasting hate in blacks. The Ethics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch is a short story about Richard wright life during Jim Crowe Law. He details racial oppression and violence as a tool used against blacks in the south. Wright was born September 4 1908 in Roxie Mississippi on a plantation. Wright was born into racial oppression and poverty. His grandfather was a former slaver and his father was a sharecropper and millworker. Wright father left home when he was six years old. His mother was forced to raise him and his sibling alone. Wright

Schools were separate, so blacks lacked material because of funding. At the age of fifteen he wrote and published his own book. The Voodoo of Hells Acre was printed in black’s newspaper. Wright had a brilliant brain he learned faster than other student in his grade level. He was promoted to the sixth grade after a few weeks of school. Then junior high school was named valedictorian of Smith Robertson junior high school. Wright was elected to give a graduation speech which he would refuse because he did not write it. His principle tried many scare tactics, but wright still refused. He later gave a speech he wrote despite how everyone else felt. Wright registered for mathematics, English and history at high school but did not finish he needed money for his family. His grandparents forced him to pray that he might find god Wright did not share similar believes he wanted to work. His grandparent practices left wright with hatred toward religion. He did not pray when problems arrived, instead he believed in fixing them with

He joined John Reed Club of writers which was dominated by Communist. Wright builds a strong relationship with several party members. He worked with the National Negro Congress he wrote several revolutionary poems. He wrote stories and poems of unfair treatment of blacks. The communist party in Chicago did not discriminated against blacks, but the one in New York did not. They did not care for Wright because he was black. Black Communist did not care for him neither because they thought he was better than them. Wright had a middle school education he was not better than them, but he knew his craft. Wright’s hard work began to pay off he was promoting to editor of the Daily Worker. That summer he wrote some of his greatest pieces ever. Fire and Cloud was a short story he wrote for a contest which he won first place. Wright story of slavery, violence and lynching won him national attention with four short stories he wrote. Uncle Tom’s children got him promoted to editorial board New Masses. Wright books sale were doing excellent. Native son was named book of the month he was the first American writer to win that award. Wright was criticized for his works' concentration on violence. Native Son, people hated how he demonstrated the portrayal of a black