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Person · 1908–1960

Richard Wright

The novelist whose "Native Son" launched the postwar Black protest tradition in American letters.

A founder of the modern [[black-literature]] tradition.

Richard Wright's "Native Son" (1940) and memoir "Black Boy" (1945) confronted white America with the rage and damage of racism, opening doors for the writers who followed.

Literature

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  1. March 1940
    Richard Wright's "Native Son"

    A searing bestseller reshapes American literature on race.

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