| One of the first African American authors to protest discrimination against blacks, Richard Wright wrote about white society’s negative influence on black culture. Wright joined the Communist Party in the 1930s and beginning in 1937 worked as an editor for the party’s Daily Worker newspaper in New York City. His best-known work, the novel Native Son, which explores how and why a young black man is driven to murder, was published in 1940. Wright left the Communist Party in 1944 and later contributed to The God That Failed (1950), a book of essays by former Communists disillusioned with the party. |
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