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Richard Wright, Black boy, California Newsreel ; a Mississippi Educational Television/BBC production ; produced, written and directed by Madison Davis Lacy ; dramatic scenes directed by Horace Ové

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Richard Wright

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California Newsreel ; a Mississippi Educational Television/BBC production ; produced, written and directed by Madison Davis Lacy ; dramatic scenes directed by Horace Ové

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Black boy

Biographical sketch of African-American writer, Richard Wright. Includes a discussion of his literary works and the times in which he lived, weaving together dramatic recreations from Wright's work and recollections of friends and scholars. It follows Wright's journey from a childhood of poverty through the Chicago Black cultural renaissance of the 1930s, the Communist Party during the Depression, the McCarthy-era, the American expatriate community in 1950s Paris and his final years

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Black boy