RICHARD WRIGHT’S NATIVE SON

RICHARD WRIGHT’S NATIVE SON

50 Years Later “Even today is my complaint rebellious…” Fifty years ago, Richard Wright chose this line from Job, words at once plaintive and defiant, as a telling epigraph to his novel Native Son. The actual novel then begins with the prophetic...
RICHARD WRIGHT’S NATIVE SON

RICHARD WRIGHT

Native Son 50 Years Later by Sarah E. King Southside Chicago, 10 PM. A 15-year-old Black girl returns to her home in a dilapidated housing project after working all day at a fast food restaurant. Her ten month old baby is waiting for her, because his father, a...