Richard grandmother joins the family in Chicago, and together they move into an apartment at 4804 Z St Lawrence Avenue, near the railroad tracks. His mother is a paralysis then returns once more, after the attacks of encephalitis. When Richard was laid off in the hospital again in the summer of 1934 working as a street cleaner, a ditch digger, after which he was hired to supervise a youth club organized to counter juvenile delinquency among blacks on the Southside.
to attend the first American Writers Congress held in New York in April, where he spoke on "Isolation of Negro writer" and meets the Chicago novelist James T. Farrell, and became one of fifty members of the National Council of the newly formed League of American writers.
to attend two other writers 'conferences: the Midwest Writers' Congress in August, the National Congress and the John Reed Clubs in September. He has been reading Henry James, more especially the preface, published by New York, Gertrude Stein, William Faulkner, T.. S. Eliot, Sherwood Anderson, Dos Passos, Eugene O'Neill, Stephen Crane, Dreiser, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, DH Lawrence, Joseph Conrad, John Galsworthy, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, George Moore, Carlyle, Jonathan Swift , Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Chekhov, Proust, Alexander Dumas, and Balzac.
In November, a lecture on the career of Langston Hughes in Indianapolis John Reed Club.
Wright published the song "Me and the world" about lynching in the Partisan Review. He fell seriously ill with pneumonia in the summer. His article "Avant-garde writing, " won second prize in the competition under the auspices of two literary magazines, but never released.
and his grandmother dies, a family with Wright still almost self-support moves to 3743 Indiana Avenue. Then he rented the Federal Writers' Project as part of the Works Progress Administration to help research the history of Illinois and the Negro in Chicago, Illinois for the volume in the American Guide Series. He also discusses the influence of Hemingway with fellow writers in the federal project.
In 1936, Wright published "transcontinental" radical six-page poem influenced by Walt Whitman and Louis Aragon in the world literature. He also became the main organizer of the Communist Party-sponsored by the National Negro Congress held in Chicago.
After that, party leaders decided to disband all clubs and assign writers composing party pamphlets and other propaganda. Richard begins to break away from the party.
Buddy Nealson, a member of the Communist International, was sent to Chicago to take the black communist movement. Nealson launches campaign to rid the party, and this year the club of all "Negro elements of Trotsky," or traitors to the party.
In 1935, Richard attended the party conference in New York, where white communists called the offer to find accommodation for him. Richard realizes that's because it is black and shocked by that. even within the Communist Party, racism exists. At this point, even Richard's idea that the Communist Party has achieved its goal of racial unity is broken. To make matters worse, Wright was quickly condemned as a bourgeois intellectual black communists who were upset that Wright did not speak as they did, although he was forced, by circumstances, to end his public education after high school.
depressed, Richard was defeated in elections for the maintenance of clubs and John Reed Clubs were officially disbanded.
Free party relations, Richard turns to her writing. He becomes aware that Buddy Nealson accused him of the party degenerate and a traitor. One day, Ed Green stops by to say that Buddy Nealson Richard wants toto talk him . When Richard goes to meet him, Nealson Richard is trying to recruit back into the party win the fight against the fascists. Richard orders the Board to organize against the high cost of living. Although he wants, Richard can not bring I to stop. He accepts the task.
One day, he called another meeting with Nealson and one of his friends, named Smith, who wants to send to Richard on a mission in Switzerland, which Richard rejects. At the next meeting of the unit, Richard officially resign from the party. Party avoids Richard, and he was accused of participating in the Trotsky group. He transferred from his work at the South Side Boys' Club for the Federal Theatre Negro as an advertising agent. Working with gifted Jewish filmmaker named Charles DeSheim, Richard sees the theater talents go to waste, and sets it to produce a series of one-act play about Negro life. But actors picket, forcing DeSheim and Richard to accept their papers and leave the theater.
Taken from the white experimentalist theater as an advertising agent, Richard promises to keep my mouth shut, steer clear of black theater, and avoid all party members.
One evening, a group of black Communists call Richard to attend a meeting Sunday where Ross will be tried for being a traitor. Richard attended out of curiosity. After being charged with crimes, Ross breaks down and accepts the guilty party and asking for forgiveness. Richard finds his motion and feels amazing that the whole party has become blind by corruption. He leaves a trial in disgust. Thereafter, only one party member, Harold, Richard has the courage to speak.
Wright countered with Ross, a member of the party charged against the leadership behaviors and encouraging the revolt. Both Ross and Wright are accused of being traitors to the party. Ross is on trial and is somehow "broken"in spirit. However, Richard was able to maintain their strong will, despite his inability to stand his ground within the party, while Ross breaks down. Richard suffers growing isolation from the party and the black community. While Ross is dependent on their peers for social and emotional support, Richard is able to survive on his own and the loneliness of ¬ that's the way it is done for almost his entire life.
through the club, Wright edited Left Front, the Communist Party magazine, which eventually closed in 1937, despite Wright's repeated protests. During this period, Wright also contributed to the journal New Masses.
Finally, Wright's insistence that the young communist writers should be given space to nurture their talents and his working relationship with the Black nationalist communist led to the public turns to the side and the leading African American Communist, Buddy Nealson. Wright was threatened at knife point fellow travel partners, as Trotsky denounced the street by assailants physically assaulted by former comrades when he tried to join them during the 1936 May Day in March
By 1935 he found a job with the Federal Negro Theater in Chicago in the Federal Writers' Project. He also wrote short stories and novels, but they were not published until after his death.
In 1937 Wright moved to New York after he fell from the Chicago chapter of the Communist Party, where he helped launch a new challenge for the magazine and was the Harlem editor of the Daily Worker, as well as coeditor of the left front. Wright forged new links with the party after the establishment in New York. He worked there at the Writers' Project Guide to New York City Panorama (1938) and wrote books of essays on the Harlem neighborhood. He also helped edit the short-lived literary magazine, a new challenge.
Wright's literary career began when his short story collection, Uncle Tom's Children (1938), won first prize for the contest Story magazine open to the Federal Writer's Project authors for the best book-length manuscript. Harper's published the collection with "fire and cloud, " "Long Black Song, " "Down by the river" and "Big Boy Leaves Home, " the 1940 story "Bright and Morning Star, " he said, the book was reissued. Wright gained national attention on the Uncle Tom's Children , which fictionalized incidents of lynching in the Deep South. That earned him a Guggenheim Fellowship which enabled him to finish his first novel, Native Son (1940 ).
Richard from the Federal experimental theater in the Federal Writers' Project, writing guides. Many of his associates were members of communist, but they are not allowed to talk to him because he was considered a traitor. One of the project administrator calls Richard's office and informed him that several of his colleagues trying to drive home from work. Richard learns that his dismissal from the theater project was also related to his relationship with the party. His boss refuses to dismiss him on political grounds. Meanwhile, Richard's co-workers call him profane names.
Richard decides to end it all by meeting with the head of the local Communist Party. But instead, he was only able to make an appointment with the Secretary General, a girl named Alma Zetkin, who says almost nothing to do with him and he leaves without accomplishing anything.
On May Day 1936, the union vote that everyone should procession in March. Following the printed instructions on where to meet his correct group for the parade, Richard learns that he is 15 minutes late and was sent to fall to anywhere. Richard urged the black communist ¬ old friend's party in March with the South Side of the Communist Section. When he saw Perry cy ¬ white communist he is instructed to fall out among themselves and leave the parade. Asking his black friends say, Richard receives no support, and physically ejected from the parade. From that day forward, Richard decides to fight back using the words, fight back through his writing.
Richard finally realizes the limitations of the Communist Party and their ignorance towards their own motivations. It pushes it over the edge. Richard believes that Communism is skewed racial facing the black community, and when his friend does not speak back to Cy Perry, he sees it as akin to racism he met in South America. May Day parade is the final milestone in the insulation where Richard realizes that he can always be alone in his thoughts and beliefs.
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