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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
RICHARD NATHANIEL WRIGHT
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Subject eeployed by IPA from l-3-38 to 5-1'!-89. 1
Subject the euthor of "letive Son, e novel -
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eeee, end thie pley In included in The Beet
run of 1940 end 1941'. Informtion regarding 1
V euhjeoe hook, Twelve llillion Black Voices
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. In:-eeu Letter to In York leted December I, 1962. lj
- o ~1!ITAILB: A review of the indicoe of the Public Library of lee York City, 1
looeted et 5th Avenue end 62nd ltreet, reflected thet the eub- _ ;
l ject'e true lent ie HICELED IATEAIIE. WRIGHT end that he we born Le 1909. he ;.
indioee eleo reected thet the euhJect wrote the following boob: lire end l
Cloud, Tvelve iiillion ileoi ioee: "Ietive ion, end Uncle ioili ¬ahili.i-ii.1
Ir. IL 3. I01-50!, in the 1939 ieeue of the Indore @|e.rterIl;',
T011130 lleven, Iueher live. in reviewing the Io:-he of the eubjeot. eteted thet 92
| RICHARD HIE! uee horn on e broken don plentetion eeer Ietohet. lieeieeipyi,
' e Stete vrhioh leede the Union in illiteracy. Ohrietienit; end eohooreoy. lie
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elong the gutted roed it dewned upon hie thet he needed en education. led
then. whether digging ditchee or clerking in the poet eftioe, he devoured the
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edvieed the writer thet the euhject
hed been eep ye t A en e Iederel Write:-e' Pi-o,1ect tron Jenner; I. 1938,
to Hey 17. 1939, when he resigned to eccept privete eeployeent. Lt thie tiee
eubject wee reeiding et 809 hint Iicholee Avenue, Iew York Git!.
'!'he Beet Pllle Of 1940 end 1941' by EH-IS IIITLI included Nil
eutject'e play, Bethe Son, which wee produced {roe the eu'h,1ect'e novel I7
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Ir. EEOOIS AHIISOH in the Iew York !ieee hed the following to ee;
ebout the euh;ect'e play, "Native Son: In the dreee Ir. GREEN eed Ir. RICH!
work in e eore objective etyle. Iithout the euhjective heckground their defense
of Bigger i'noeee'e gheetiy criee in the court ecene eounde like generelieed
pleetiing. It lecke the etinging enlighteent er the Ieet third of llr. Imam:
novel. But thet oonpletee tnie -co1uen'e hill of exoeptione to the higgeet
Lnericen dre-ne of the eeeeon."
Ihe novel, liwelve Million Fleck l'oioee", which wee written by the
eubject, wee publiehed by the Viking ?reee in Iew York Git; in October. 1941,
end thie book in divided into four pertel ! Our ltrenge lirth: ! Inheritore
of Iievery: ! Deeth on the City Peveeente: end ! Ien in the Ieking. In the
foreword, llr. WEIGHT etetee"whi1e thie novel purporte to render e hroed picture
of the proceeeee oi negro life in the United ltetee. ietcntionelly it dnee lot
include in ite coneideretione thoee ereee of negro life which coespriee the eo-
celled 'te1er-ted tenth or the ieoieted ie1e.nde or Ieletto leederehip which ere
etilgl to he iound in e_e_nv pe_rte e! the South er the growing end inlleeetiel negro
eiddle cleee profeeeionel end hueineee een of the Iorth who here. for the pelt
twenty yeere or eore, foreed e eort of Iieieon corpe hetween the whitee end the
'h1ec.ke"e '
The reference letter reected thet on Pege 143 oi the ehcve-eentiened
novel, there wee mteriel thet eppeered to he eeditioue in heture: end for the
benefit or the Bureau, the ehove-eentioned pege ie being quoted in full!
there ere eilliene ct ee Qd ee ere eovig in ell directieeet L11
our Iivee we here been oetepulted into ereoee where. hed we thought ooeeoievnell
gt .11|1'§d.ing thee, we would heve hung heck. A eenee of eonetent ohenge he etoll
etientlrinto our liver end hee hecoee operative in our pereonelitiee ee e Lev
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tapoooiblo to work sith shitos: no tool that it io fntilo to hopo or lrsas to
torn of Ann-loos: lito. Our tiot:-not to oo root that vo for: intsoooly roots!
and national iotlc organizations and advocate tho ootahliohnont of o osparsto
stato, a forty--ninth otato. to which no black folk would ltvo.
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strong nation oc keonly that so acoiro tho harsh ant iaporialtottc pollcios of
Japan and araontly hops that tho Japanooo sill assuas tho loadorohip of tho
Markor racoo'.
La our conocicoonooo chongoo. as so cons of ago. ao to shod our
folk ooadciling clothoo, oc run our livoo in a hondrod tiroctiono.
=T-oéay. all of no 'olacr fol: aro not poor. at foo of ii hiro ioni-
Io mke it ao tho Ihito folk lake theirs, but our lone!-inking to rootrictod to
our con pooplo. Ian; of uo black folk hows managed to oond our ohilron to
ochool. and a for of our child:-on aro nos profooolonal and. husinoot Isa Ihcoo
otandnrco of livlg app;-origto thooo of ;idd_lo-claoo Ihitoo, loco of ll on
loll huoineoooo: othero tovoto thsir ltvoo to law and nodiclnoo
"But tho osjority or no still toil on tho plontotiono. work in host:
industry. and labor in tho kitchono of tho Loris of tho I-and and tho Boooeo of
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Tho gcnorol dislocation of llfo curing tho doproosion co-uo nan;
shits Iorkero to loam through chronic prtvation that tho; could not protoct
oi"-up go,-ml-1-A a0 11-t nl In 1mm a ua Hlanlra uara ntnluad frn tholr IniclilAmiga I_|I|oiQ_ inn Q71 DI _C_ =I ww loos-Iw --rrw --v- -v -v ----e
lhuu hnndroco of thcuoaniio o!_thos found that tho; could not fiét scccoosfolly
for incroaood vagso and union rooognitton cnlooo oro otood ahoulcor to shccltor
with thou. Lo a oonooquonco. non! of no havo rocontly hocooo nsshors of stool,
antooohile. poking and tobacco nnlcno.'
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!'£ho lffcrooooi hotooon hlack folk ::-.5 -ah -
color. and tho tioo that bind no aro lloplr than thou
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refutes any of his can etatenente regarding the iapoaaibility of the iegrote
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Prom all the information concerning Subject in publications
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ie continuing his activities as a writer. In addition to hie better mow:
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Ihich concern the Negro. The publicity which has been received by Subject
IRIGHT is typified by the rather lengthy review of his life appearing in the
!'cl92% "G1.e..rrent Biogz!pb.y-1-Q;Le.0' pdbl_.i..ehed by the H. != !il!Q.!l e Ib_;.L!volume states m , luthor, In bom Bepteuber 4, not and hie
present address ie care of HLRPER & BROTHERS, 49 8-let 3311:! Street, New York
City. It refers to his as a brilliant young negro writer aboee collection of
abort stories "Uncle Tme'e Children" Ion a #500 priae competition in 1938 and
Ihoee book Native $on" nee the iarch, 1956 eeiection of the Foot-of-the--ionth
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house to live. IRIGHT is quoted ae having stated that be did eo Inch righting,
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any all over the country Io:-ting at any tine.-ct Job from ditch-digging to
clcrking in a poet office. lie drifted to Chicago where he had heard legroea
etood a better chance of getting jobs. He was a clerk for a idle an! tn
1933 had a taste or politics. The review than quotes chat is purportedly
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Priaary Election", he ea1d,"I can p1'0I.'1.8Od a job» I didn't
get it. Next time I became an aecietant precinct captain
for the Democrats arr! was pIl'0l1IOd a Job, Ihich I didn't
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refer to an a card-carrying Gcmunietfe
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Chicago lni had eold paper articles and cone etc:-lee to the magazines.
camc tollewIork1n1937Ihercheaga1ngotonthcIRI1'H?S'PRJJEC'1¢
cecay on Harlem in the "liar Io:-k Pane:-1". b eleo-did acne Icrk an-912111; Io:-her" and became e contributing editor or % Iaeeea". In
IRIGHT reportedly got a Guggenheim fellcwlhip Ihich enabled hi! to quit
the Project and oclplete his novel lllative 8-on. He lived for acne month!
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HANDY EXCUSE. THE HILITANCY OF THE NEGRO QUESTION HAS PASSED INTO THE
HANDS OF RIGHT UING NEGROE5. THAT HAS NOT TRUE EIGHT YEARS AGO. GHOST
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sunJsc'r= RICHARD A'!hANIE'J.. IRIGHTsscunrrx mmzn c 1; Bureau :11. 100-157464! . b
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/Reference is made to the report oi Bpecial Lgen't
made at New Ya-k City on September 5, 1944 entitled RICHARD
IRIGHI; INTERNAL SECURITY C. This report sets out e. lead for the
New York Field Division, "After careful co deration interview the subjectIRIC-HI concerning his association with mdet Party."
After very careful consideratio it is felt inadvisable to
interview IRIGIT particularly as thetnsia ' s break with the Commnist Party,as appears from his recent articles in the{At1antic llonthly Iagasine, is the.L=m921r-Lsi-lP§!§zl_5.£si_1,1@r= is Es =11.f_{i_§Js11i_ xggisél.-""1 1'.-_1i£'*%'1 "=P°__°P--tofte advé-acenent of _:,%e"__fgr9,__ 'I1'v=.se articles also Ixmdicate a comp ste
Efea;spro1'aI~by'1lHIGH'1 o the American say of life.
L150 considered in arriving at the decision not to interview
IRIGHT are the facts that he has been classified 4-F due to severe psycho-neurosis
and his contacts with his Local Selective Service Board have reflected his
interest in the problem of the Neg-o to be almost an obsession.
In View of the subject's public break Idth the Camurxist Party,
he is no longer being carried as} Ke1figxue_by ,tl3e__I_~Ie1r Iork _1l:le1d_HDi!ision,howeierj a' Security me: Card on e 1; being i?a1nm1T|3'Sy"1.ne New :01-k Office
due to his £i1iLt.§r___11: attitude jthe,']Qg1:g_p£ob1en.
The anb inf ation secured by this office concerning IRIGHT
at has not already been eported is that he was listed as a member of the
___.lational Committee of the International Labor Defense in a pamphlet entitled,
l'IZn|e92a'| lee-II-1 4 no-vi man let we kn I92' VLIIQAZ H I8 th
IRIGI-IT'S residence address has
Brooklyn, New Iork, as ofWUQJ, 92Ill§I||-LC. Qll-I b¬lH92pl'§92e" LII DIX 92l'Ul LEG 92Il-
International Labor Defense in September 1941+.92een verified as Apt. 0-23, 39 Lefferts Place,
February 15, 1945. _
This investigation is being placed in a closed statue by the
. New York Field Division. In the event further investigation becomes necessary,
it will be reported under a Security latter C Ch81'&CbOIe
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I-en a no-rem aa 'li'r'FB;~ing me; cl the
impact of the Jlincrow system upon human
helngsint-hedeepouth. 'I'he-resultisa
pirture which challenges Amerloa.
1 There may be exaggerations in the book.
Ilany of the incidents may ~ ~. -he highly ctional, and ~
never really happened to r
W ht But whet dierenoe - -r f_ rig .
doermatnrial:ei.!the_rhap- _ "i-1-1pened to some other young 3 1 '1 -"
i _- 1;. Negro. The point is that " 5; they should not happen to .' '.-1
any Negro and the condi- ' .
tions which corrode the Ne- _ ,
ire iamilr mm! be =l1m1- W.
nattxi. Pior they victirnlze
mtg pg]; the Negro citizen; they suocate the
pong whites to I more or le-as d¢¬T¢9» um
retard the development of the whole South.
new, no sood w run any from W1
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pur'p05eof[1aPp1j.l13I'lthU'1el:ODi1lfIl|l-
pectn, some oi which are ooh!-al-nod in 91¢
book, and others or which surround the
authors views and his Wrlli oi the book.
It ts of supreme importance that this main
picture oi the life and death of the Neirrv
tinder the reign or white mnrrmlcr Ibo!-114
hit America with lull ioroe. For it oonoerm
America. Any attempt to bypus this over-all
picture will lessen its force and thereby lead
to an tmdereetimation of its starkneea and
blunt the sharp need for oorrectivea W'h|:1'l
this main picture is changed in its principal
ouilines, the derivative secondary word-I V111
disappear. But until it does, naturally there
are going to be all kinds of eoriquon. badly
. ' '" IIby Benjamin J: Dovis, Jr.
iocueed perspectlvu. and nitsleadlna lm92>1till-
ties and omclusionama-ny d which mar
Black B01.I I I
TH! book h intensely aubjectlve. In tact,
it is limited by its lulu]-ectlvenen. But
people are not born subjective, and it it clear
thsta!°92m¢_Negrowhohastonmthe
;a.u_ni.let of every type at opprm.don--gust
short of l,yne.hinghas subjectiveness ioroed
into his marrow. This heavy ]:a'us1.:re pushes
himtovlewtheworldinwhlchhelives
entirely through glasses colored by his own
personal sutlering lrom national oppression.
which Iuering in one lorm or another he
meets every day. Those who complain oi
that intense subjectivity are iorevu stopped
from doing so, unless they realize what
brought it about, and also help to eradicate
the diseased soil tram which it grows.
!_i is important. however, that this nih-
jectlvenees he overcome. It can be done and
la being done since there are new trends and
{actors which make the overcoming poesihle.
ltisalaoneoeasaryioovunomeitleatcaie
tall into the trap oi frustration and defeat-
iam which the white supremacy forces have
aet. Black Boy says aome wholly unacceptable
thinps about the Negro: capacity tor genuine
emotion. Here the authors subjectivity has
overcome reality. For the truly remarkable
achievement 0! the Negro is that he has
made such singular contributions to America
c1iltttra11y and musically and in all other
tieici.edesplte the system of national opwes-
sion which tends to thwart his every eort.
The point is: Will Wright h.ims8_tbe_ableo r
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Ofoek Boy
to overcome this limitation cl mbjectiviti
hipoeed upon him in order that he |naJsec
clearly, and participate with, the loroes which
would destroy the myth oi white mpremacy.
Inasmuch as Wright has attained terarj.
prmninenoe, and some circles have lhrmt up-or.
the mantle oi spokesman tor his people
abovealimustlnalntalnaclearhead.
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'lH!'.R.E la no doubt that Wright wields a
brilliant rtorn_1y Iew 51-Q1! teher:
are his equal But is this sulcleni. when
therearehrllliantwritersonboth sides oi
the barricades. It la vitally important that
the artist who reects and the artist who mi
1ihewayoutshouldbeo|:ieandt-henmc
person. For both these factors exist in the
objective real world. outside one's self. Jim-
crow is here. yet Jimcros: is also being driven
defeated it-om the scene. Lite is not static.
Onehasl-oaeebothpIIelmli.stlc,andto
shape the future.
Wright does not aee the positive, oonst.l ue-
tlveslde.andthereforef.hemirrocruIhispe1
does not give a complete picture. He omit!
theblggestnewthlngwhlchishappeninglr
the world tndayl-he main progressive cur-
reritstromwhlcheventheouthhno
immune. Apparently he is isolated it-om thew
developmentsan<l far removed from the pe< -
pie. Such lsolationism can lead to st!-3'liellor
-to form without content. It is wetty tinfo-
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ICHARD WRIGHT is r . '" "'~ -
the author of one of me most winery read
and hoeiy debated novels of recent years,
"Native Bon.? an acknowledged leader of his race.
But the wayv was long and the road was rocky.
Not verygmahy years ago he was just "a black
boy in Missisippi," which means few men in
the world have Begun life under a burden of
_ graver handicaps or
faced more difficult
obstacles. That he has
. gone so far, accom-
I pllshod so much, en-
titles Mr. Wright to
an honored rank
among that tradition-
ally American select
group. the self-made
men." His success
etory doe: him great
credit. The twubiei
he knew in his child-
hood and youth were
terrible, the wounds
he received deep. He
1 carries indelible scars
i _ and still burns with
bitter fury. Hie Life
he knew as a child is
not over. It has not changed. Hundreds or thou-
sands of other little black boys are enduring it
today. Such a lite ls usually completely outside
the comprehension of white Americans, either
Southern or Northern. But tn who eare tocan now share it. tn Mr. 'ghNck Boy:
A Record of Childhood and Youi.h."' .
This is a story from America's own lower
depths. No nostalgic memories of childhood are
these, no sentimental yearning: for innocent
yesre when the hills were so much higher. Mr.
Wright: childhood was an obscene and monstrous
nightmare. a malign inferno that might well
haye destroyed him utterly. He survived. but
not unscathed. "Black Boy" is not the work
of an objective or or Q open mind. 1t
could not have been. The neuroses, the over-
tmphasls, the lack of balance and the emotion
reoollected in turmoil are the bitter fruit of an
old injustice.
Shows Harsh Dramatic Power
Mr. Wright in this explosive autobiography
does not suggest any onnstnictive rnenna for
lrnproving the lot of the Negro in this country.
Like Lillian Smith, he can only display suffer-
ing and cruelty with harsh dramatic power, he
can-only arouse anger and sympathy. 1! enough
such books are written, it enough millions of
people read them, maybe, some day. in the tull-
neas or time, there will be a greater understand-
ing and a more true democracy.
Richard Wright grew up in the slums of Mem-
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By Riclld-rd fright. K pages. II-rper. IZM.
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pbls and in the rural slums 1-
Mississippi near Jackson. His
his mother, so the poverty he lo-new
the usual lot. The two dominant lnuen
his childhood were hunger and tear, a gnawing
hunger that kept hirn weal: and half-starved and
a fear that grew and multiplied and filled his
entire life. He feared his mother's anger, the
whippings of his uncles and aunts. the abuse oi
other children, ghosts, white men with their in-
explicable and capricious orusitiea, {ear itself.
Terror was his companion night and day, violence
the norm or all experience. Ioul language and
foul habits, ignorance and superstition, primitive
religious fanaticism surrounded him on all sides.
Hie proud, sensitive, intelligent child looked up
from below at a grotesque, outrageous world.
Someottheevshehnewwerecausedby
poverty and ignorance alone and would not have
been much different in Ireland or Iran. But
even these were intensified by the ahib»
boleth of color and many others were caused by
race alone. Hr. Wright's uncle was murdered
by a white man and no one dared even to protest
A boyhood acquaintance was lynched. He learned
to be ssrvlle and obsequious, to my "sir" to
drunken and contemptibie white mun, to oun-
oeal his thoughts and emotions beneath a mask
oi humble good humor and deference. Not to
do so, ho forget the "sir" or the "mister," to
aspire to learn a skilled trade, to show resent-
ment of sneera. oondescension and abuse was
to mvite "trouble." And trouble wold me...
Author Disiorts Bleak Story l
"Black Boy" only takes Hr. Wright into his
late teens when he escaped to Chicago. His ex-
periences there and in radical politics will doubt-
less be material tor another book. It could con-
ceivably be an intellectually more interesting
book. one more concerned with thought and ideas.
But it could hardly be a more emotionally dread-
ful one. Part of the raw shock of Black Boy
is caused by Mr. Wright's aaoeuive determina-
tion to orrit nothing, to emphasise more QQQ
This springs from a lack of artistic disc1'i.mlna-lion and selectivity. He has not added wk
bleak tragedy ot his story; he has only dls
it and confused it with such material.
It is also obvious in reading "Black Boy. and
Mr. Wght admits it. that his is not I typical
story. He felt isolated tron: Negroes as well as
trorn whites; other hlegroes resented their lot
but did not feel at all so acutely as be did. Per-
haps with the hindsight of the years In which
he has brooded and will-1 a natural literary in-
stinct to eapiialue and d~e:netize lm enotiors
Hr. Wright has exaggerated his sufferings. " It
would be only human it he had.
"Black Boy" has little subtlety, little light and
shade, no restraint. It is written in a continu-
ously strained and feverish manner. It is ovar-
written. But it is powerful, moving and horrify-
ing. Itlsoertalntobeerlttlillilll-?pra.lsed
and roundly condemned. 1: will be "Meir read.
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RICHAIUJ l{ATI-TANIEL WRIGHT '
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Bureau File 100-l5Th§.h!
Reference is made to New York letter to the Bureau dated February 26,
l9LS in the captioned matter wherein it was pointed out that in view of the
subject's public break with the 5-omunist Party, he is no longer being carried
is a key figure by the New York Field Office, but that a Security Index card
on him was being maintained by this office. This atatement was made in error
in view of the fact that although the New York Office recommended to the
Bureau by letter dated June 28, 191;!; that a Security Index Card be prepared on
the subject, no authorization nae actually received by the Bureau to prepare
such a card. '
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come into the picture to redeem
our faith in human-kind. Perhaps
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the face of all the circumstance; a
icker oi ambition kept within
him. He even oossess-ed the "for-
ei rt" desire to wri'%lCE3I3 wngn! has little Pride
in his own people for he says:
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aential bleakness of black hie in
America, I knew that Negroes had
never been allowed 1° ¢;t¢h the
full spirit of Western civilization,
that they lived somehow in it but
not 0! it. And when I brood:-d
upon the cultural barrenness or
black lite. I wondered it clean,
?Ol1tl92-I tenderness, love. honor,oyalty, and the capacity to re-
member were native with man. I
asked mys-el! If these human qual-
ities were not fostered. won.
struggled and auered tor. pre-
served in ritual irorn one genera-
tion to another."
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1111111112: of Western Civiliztibn,
I wonder about the "positive ten-
derneas" of the whites. Could
there be much genuine feeling
within the hearts oi a people who
could stand by and permit condi-
tiona such as exist in "Black Boy"
to prevail? What kind at people
are these who kept others in slav-
ery. treed them in name only.
tried to make sure that they didn't
become enlightened throuih edu-
cation, signed restrictive cove-
nants to keep them living in the
alums. maintained the idea of
white supremacy! The only gen-
uine passion" that I ever saw ex-
hibited Iras the unleashed spirit
that moved the mobs to lynch.
How hollow are the memories
of white America that send Gold
Star mothers over to Europl
visit the [raves of their iaiien
black Iona in Jim-Crow trans-
ports! ow" hollow are the meni-
ories of white America that main-tain a Jim-Q-ow arm! Ind "IV!
in the secorio 92Woi-id War. Where
ta this grand ¢92'Passion of 92_V¢8t-ern civilization'.'~92'lhia "emotionalatrength," this clean, positive
D " " ' /rv-!>'7lldtenderness. love, honor, loyalty,
leaves me zropirig in the darkness.
Negroes do feel deeply! Could
they have given America Iolk mu-
sic otherwise? It is agreed that
our masses need education.
Through education they will ax-
rive. But I believe that the way
of life oi the Negro, the humble
folk, with the white humble talk,
is the only redeeming factor in
America. It's the humble soul that
makes lite livable anywhere. It is
he who oifers a helping hand in
the time of trouble; it is he who
practices the golden rule; it is he
who doesn't clamor for wealth arid
position, tihe shallow posses-
aionm . . . In hapby contrast to
the rnaterialists. the capitalists.
the exploiters, he make-s a pretty
picture. It is he, the rneek soul,
black and white. who will one day
inherit the earth.-Ruth Apilado,
Haywood, ILLI
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Dear Sir:
Richard Lrijht the nefro tho wrote black boy and Native Son books
are doinj no good and a lot of harm they are causinr disunity and spreading
race hatred and if you people don_t_ want America LOI6 up the same as
Germany you had better put a stop to sutch people as th;t poor old ass
of a Southern Senztor with uis bach to africa move ment and sutph
old fools as that poor crazy old Rich:_rd -rrifht. Te colored people
are good natured all we want is justice a good job with good pay for work
well GCLE. Every time we turn around some one is complaining nayging
ccnst;{§g' critgrgising evcry thing we do. Richard Jright seem_ to be un-
h£n"|y in nrxeric; so we mist to God he would leave and go some olice else
for he is ge_t_ing on our nerves. I and all the other colored peoole know
that ninty percent of the trash that he puts in his books are lies, but
if oe: le in Ger any should jet a hold of Black boy 1's awfull afraid Uncle
Sam's face is going to be red for you cagt rule a German if you cant
rule .~J.'£:iC;.a.. and the lies that poor sick braned fool Richard Bright nut
in his books sure dept do 4¬TiC& any good in.tin foreigner's eye sight.
Je colored people want Richard Jright'S books boned if he cant Write a
story without tryinjj to agitate race trouble we want him to pick himself
a. new vocation. Just get a copy of his books and go through them. We
dong see why he isn't in the ;..n:.y anyway. If he went to India or norm
other place and saw how horrible those people live then he would see how
far advanced we are. After all we colored peoole are zbing the best we
can if you would get a copy of the negro hand book for 19h2 you would
see just ho".-.~ well we are doing. '-'.'e are only a anall race oi people.
'-'.'e colored people are very discouraged and that is the reason sixty million
little bity Japanese can fight all most two billion people without Q allig
and hole out so long. Because that Billion colored people are on the
point of giving up. After all this is not our war and if we win We logse
So I suppose there is nothing to do but just say to hell with the hole
bloody mess.
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