Category: Richard Wright

The Party in America Communism has been one of the most controversial topics in the United States for some time. Whenever communism is brought up, some think about the Cold War, or maybe even think of a certain country like Russia, but most think about communism after 1945. Communist involvement in America was even more…

With the ruthless enactment of Jim Crow laws after the Civil War, African Americans’ rights and opportunities were immensely limited, causing a social and financial disparity among the different races. One major encumbrance that had to be overcome was the lack of an equal educational environment, which was one of the main contributors to the…

Not all Blacks behaved as these two did. In a passage that probably reflects Wright’s own internal struggle, he describes the fugitive Bigger, lonely and afraid, watching the singing, clapping men and women in a nearby church. Would it not have been better for him had he lived in that world the music sang of?…

The two men continue to harass him, when the manager and his secretary are gone, Pease summons Wright from his duties. Suddenly he finds himself hemmed in between the white men in a narrow corridor. Pease glances at him winks at Reynolds, standing a short distance away. The two white men measure him with hostile…