'The Man Who Lived Underground' is a new, posthumous book by Richard Wright — a frighteningly relevant story about a Black man brutalized by police
‘The Man Who Lived Underground’ is a new, posthumous book by Richard Wright — a frighteningly relevant story about a Black man brutalized by police Chicago Tribune (IL) Richard Wright, in the winter of 1941, was the most successful Black author in America. Only 14 years earlier, he had made the Great Migration, moving from Memphis to Hyde Park but quickly dropped out and went to work. He sorted mail for the Chicago post office, and he cared for medical-research animals at what was then Michael Reese Hospital, and he sold insurance policies door-to-door on the South Side. Also, he s...
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