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COHHUNISTS REGAUSE THESE HILL

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WRIGHT FURTHERADVISED

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co

1944 entitled RICHARD

This report sets out e. lead for the

deration interview the subject

IRIC-HI
concerning
his
association
with
mdet
Party."

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interview
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After very careful consideratio

it is felt inadvisable to
IRIGIT particularly
as thetnsia
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s
break with the Commnist Party,

asappears
from
hisrecent
articles
inthe{At1antic
llonthly
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at the decision not to interview
IRIGHT are the facts that he has been classified
4-F due to severe psycho-neurosis
and his

interest

contacts
with

his

Local

Selective

Service

Board

have

reflected

his

in the problem of the Neg-o to be almost an obsession.

In View of the subject&#39;s
public break Idth the Camurxist Party,

he is no longer being carried as}

Ke1figxue_by ,tl3e__I_~Ie1r
Iork _1l :le1d_HDi!ision,

howeierja&#39;
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attitude

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secured by this

office

concerning IRIGHT

at has not already been eported is that he was listed as a memberof the
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Division.
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impact of the Jlincrow system upon human

helngsint-hedeep outh.
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pirture which challenges Amerloa.
1 There may
be
exaggerations in the book.
Ilany of the incidents may ~ ~. -

he highlyctional,
and
never really happened to
r

hm-e--_. W right . But whet di erenoe

doermatnrial:ei.!the_rhap-

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other
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Negro.Thepointis that
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they
should
not
happen
to .&#39;
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any Negro and the condi&#39;

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nattxi. Pior they victirnlze

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mtgpg]; the Negrocitizen; they su ocatethe

pongwhites
to

I moreor le-asdT9
um

retard the developmentof the whole South.

new,
no sood w run any from W1

iocueed perspectlvu. and nitsleadlna lm92>1tillties and omclusiona ma-ny d which mar
Black B01.
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TH! book
h intensely
aubjectlve.
In tact,
it is limited by its lulu]-ectlvenen. But
people are not born subjective, and it it clear

Of oekBoy
to overcome
thislimitation
cl mbjectiviti
hipoeed upon him in order that he |naJ sec
clearly, and participate with, the loroes which
would destroy the myth
oi
white mpremacy.
Inasmuch as Wright has attained terarj.
prmninenoe,and somecircles have lhrmt
up-or.
the mantle oi spokesmantor his people

thsta!92m_Negrowhohastonmthe
abovealimustlnalntalnaclearh
pur&#39;p05eof[1 aPp1j.l13I&#39;lthU&#39;1el
:ODi1lfIl|l;a.u_ni.let
of
every
type
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short of l,yne.hing has subjectivenessioroed

pectn,
some
oiwhich
are
ooh!-al-nod
in91into
his marrow. This
heavy
]:a&#39;us1.:re
pushes

book, and others or which surround the

himtovlewtheworldinwhlchhelives
authors views and his Wrlli
oi the book.
entirely through glasses colored by his own
It ts of supreme importance that this main
personal sutlering lrom national oppression.
picture oi the life and death of the Neirrv which Iu ering in one lorm or another he
tinder the reign or white mnrrmlcr Ibo!-114 meets every day. Those who complain oi
hit America with lull ioroe. For it oonoerm
that intense subjectivity are iorevu stopped
I
. America. Any attempt
to
bypus this over-all
from doing so, unless they realize what
,I &#39;i . picture will lessen its force and thereby lead
brought it about, and also help to eradicate
I
5 to an tmdereetimation of its starkneea and
the diseased soil tram which it grows.
blunt the sharp need for oorrectivea W&#39;h|:1&#39;l
!_i is important. however, that this nihjectlvenees he overcome. It can
be
done and
this main picture is changed in its principal
ouilines, the derivative secondary word-I V111 la
being done since there are new trends and
disappear. But until it does, naturally there
{actors which make the overcoming poesihle.
are
going
to
be
all kinds of eoriquon.
badly
If-. =~re35
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nodoubt
that
R.E
Wright
wields
a
brilliant
rtorn_1y
Iew 51-Q1teher:
!
are his equal But is this su lcleni. when
therearehrllliantwritersonboth
sides
oi
the barricades. It la vitally important that
the artist who re ects and the artist who mi

1ihewayoutshouldbeo|:iea
person.
Forboth
these
factors
exist
inthe
objective real world. outside one&#39;s
self. Jimcrow 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 uetlveslde.andthereforef.hemirrocruIhispe1
does not give a complete picture. He omit!

ltisalaoneoeasaryioovunomeitleatcaie
tallinto
the
trap
oifrustration
and
defeatiam which the white supremacy forces have
aet. Black Boy says aome wholly unacceptable theblggestnewthlngwhlc
thinps about the Negro : capacity tor genuine
theworld
tndaymain
l-he
progressiv
curemotion. 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.e despltethe system of national opwession which tends to thwart his every e ort.

reritstromwhlcheventhe o
immune.
Apparently
heisisolated
it-om
thew

developments an<l far removed from the pe<

pie. Such lsolationism can lead to st!-3&#39;liello
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graver handicaps or
faced more difficult
obstacles. That he has

. gone so far, accomI pllshod so much, entitles Mr. Wright to

an
honored
rank
among
that
traditionally American select
group. the self-made
men."
His success
etory doe: him great
credit. The twubiei
he knew in his childhood and youth were
terrible, the wounds
he received deep. He
carries indelible scars

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_ and still burnswith

bitter fury.
Hie Life
he knew as a child is
not over. It has not changed. Hundreds or thou-

Richardwnm

sandsof other little black boys are enduring it

today. Such
a
lite ls usually completelyoutside
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Not verygmahyyears ago he was just "a black

boy in Missisippi,"

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ICHARD WRIGHT is r.
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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.

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the comprehension of white Americans, either

Southern or Northern.
But tn
who eare to

PRESCOTT
pbls and in the rural slums 1Mississippi near Jackson. His
his mother, so the poverty he lo-new
the usual lot. The two dominant ln uen
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&#39;s
anger, the
whippings of his uncles and aunts. the abuse oi
other children, ghosts, white men with their inexplicable 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.
Someottheev shehnewwerecausedby
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&#39;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 ounoeal his thoughts and emotions beneath
a
mask
oi humble good humor and deference. Not to
do so, hoforget the "sir" or the "mister," to
aspire to learn a skilled trade, to show resentment of sneera. oondescension and abuse was
to mvite "trouble." And trouble wold me...

Author
can
now
share
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A Record of Childhood and Youi.h."&#39;

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This is a story from America&#39;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 obsceneand monstrous
nightmare.
a
malign inferno that might well

"Black Boy" only takes Hr. Wright into his

late teens when he escaped to Chicago. His experiences there and in radical politics will doubtless
be
material tor another
book.
It could conceivably be an intellectually more interesting
book. one more concerned with thought and ideas.
But it could hardly be
a
more emotionally dreadhaye destroyedhim utterly. He survived. but ful one. Part of the raw shock of Black Boy
I
not unscathed. "Black Boy" is not the work is caused by Mr. Wright&#39;s
aaoeuive determinasf
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of an objective
or or Q open mind. 1t tion to orrit nothing, to emphasise more QQQ
could not have been. The neuroses, the over- This springs from a lack of artistic disc1&#39;i.mlnatmphasls, the lack of balance and the emotion
reoollected in turmoil are the bitter fruit of an bleak tragedy ot his story; he has only dls
it and confused it with such material.
_,_.&#39;.-?.- old injustice.
It is also obvious in reading "Black Boy. and
Shows Harsh Dramatic Power
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Mr. W ght admits it. that his is not
I
typical
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as
well as
Mr. Wright in this explosive autobiography story. He felt isolated tron: Negroes
does not suggest any onnstnictive rnenna for trorn whites; other hlegroes resented their lot
be
did. Perlrnproving the lot of the Negro in this country. but did not feel at all so acutely as
Like Lillian Smith, he can only display suffer- haps with the hindsight of the years In which
a
natural literary ining and cruelty with harsh dramatic power, he he has brooded and will-1
__,_can-only arouse anger and sympathy. 1! enough stinct to eapiialue and d~e:netize lm enotiors
such books are written, it enough millions of Hr. Wright has exaggerated his sufferings. " It
people read them, maybe, some day. in the tull- would be only human it he had.
neas or time, there will be
a
greater understand"Black Boy" has little subtlety, little light and
shade, no restraint. It is written in
a
continuing and
a
more true democracy.
_;_ .e
- - -e
Richard Wright grew up in the slums of Mem- ously strained and feverish manner. It is ovar-i
written. But
it
is powerful, moving and horrify._._i
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ILA Cll&#39;30! : .1 Record sf Childhood and Youth.
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SECURITY

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Reference is madeto NewYork letter to the Bureau dated February 26,
l9LS in the captioned matter wherein it was pointed out that in view
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is a key figure
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dated June 28, 191;!;that a Security Index Card

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Richard Lrijht

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tho wrote

black boy

and Native

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you people

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