Richard Wright – Untold Stories of a Great Writer
Richard Wright was an African American anti-slavery activist whose works portrayed the racial discrimination against the blacks in the United States of America especially in the Deep South. He was one of the voices for the black race when racism was still at its peak in the U.S and he spoke about the things troubling the black race of his time strongly in his books especially in the native son. His novels are interesting historical novels about blacks lives in America in the teeth of slavery and post-slavery. It was just like the poems of Claude McKay who witnessed blacks lynching in America. Reading his simple dictions novels is like studying the racial lines in America and draw lines to what's
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He was asked to write a paper to be delivered at the graduation in a public auditorium. But because of the insensitivity of the speech, the school principal warned him against presenting it, his classmates and even his uncle told him not to but Richard disobeyed them all and went along with his original speech without care to the fact that the speech was punching the whites sitting among the crowd.
He gained recognition in 1938 for the collection of four of his short stories titled Uncle Tom's Children (1938). The book had a favourable reception which helped boost his status with the Communist party and provided him with financial stability; enough to start the book "The Native Son" (1940). A book where the main character "Bigger Thomas" was portrayed as whites’ worst fear for Blacks at the time. He is a highly opinionated man and attacked everything American and moved from town to town till he later relocated to France - where he died 1960 from heart attack -an "American