USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Richard Wright, (born September 4, 1908, near Natchez, Mississippi, U.S.-died November 28, 1960, Paris, France), 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).

Detailed explanation-2: -Native Son thus represents Wright’s urgent warning that if American social and economic realities did not change, the oppressed masses would soon rise up in fury against those in power. Disenchanted over the Communist Party’s attempts to control the content of his writing, Wright quietly split with the Party in 1942.

Detailed explanation-3: -Richard Wright was thirty-one when “Native Son” was published, in 1940. He was born in a sharecropper’s cabin in Mississippi and grew up in extreme poverty: his father abandoned the family when Wright was five, and his mother was incapacitated by a stroke before he was ten.

Detailed explanation-4: -Native Son, novel by Richard Wright, published in 1940. The novel addresses the issue of white American society’s responsibility for the repression of blacks.

Detailed explanation-5: -’Black Boy’ In 1945, Wright published Black Boy, which offered a moving account of his childhood and youth in the South. It also depicts extreme poverty and his accounts of racial violence against Black people.