By Victor Trammell Photo credits: Hulton Archive / Getty Images Richard Wright (1908-1960) initially gained public prominence in the few years before and after 1940 with a collection of novels. The book 'Uncle Tom's Children' (1938), a novel written by Wright, was inspired by the question: How can a Black man exist in a society that […]

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