"The Ethics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch"
Autobiography
By: Richard Wright
Date: 1937
Source: Wright, Richard. "The Ethics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch." American Stuff: An Anthology of Prose and Verse by Members of the Federal Writers' Project. New York: The Viking Press, 1937, 39–52. Available online at http://newdeal.feri.org/texts/608.htm; website home page: http://newdeal.feri.org (accessed March 24, 2003).
About the Author: Richard Wright (1908–1960), novelist and short-story writer, was born near Natchez, Mississippi, to an impoverished family. Largely self-educated, he was one of the first writers to describe white treatment of blacks. His best known works, Native Son and Black Boy, are classic studies of racism in America. Wright, who had become a Communist in 1933, grew...
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