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The Reader’s Notebook: Richard Wright

britannica.com

September 4, 2018 -- Richard Wright, novelist and short-story writer who was among the first African American writers to protest white treatment of blacks, notably in his novel Native Son (1940) and his autobiography, Black Boy (1945). He inaugurated the tradition of protest explored by other black writers after World War II.  

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