Richard Wright -- Black boy [videorecording] / written, produced and directed by Madison Davis Lacy ; dramatic scenes directed by Horace Ové ; a Mississippi Educational Television and BBC production
Format:
[videorecording] /
Publisher:
CA :
Copyright Date:
c2004, c1994
Description:
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in
Originally produced in 1994. Narrator, J.A. Preston
Summary:
Biographical sketch of the Afro-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 1930's, the Communist Party during the Depression, the MacCarthy-era, the American expatriate community in 1950's Paris and his final years
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