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Title:

Richard Wright [videorecording] : Black boy / written, produced and directed by Madison Davis Lacy ; dramatic scenes directed by Horace Ové ; a Mississippi Educational Television/BBC production.

Format:

[videorecording] :

Publisher:

California Newsreel distributor,

Copyright Date:

c1994

Description:

1 videocassette (87 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in.

Subject:

Wright, Richard,--1908-1960.
Afro-American authors--20th century--Biography.
Afro-Americans in literature.
United States--Race relations.

Other Authors:

Lacy, Madison Davis.
Ové, Horace.
Mississippi Educational Television.
British Broadcasting Corporation.

Notes:

Narrator, J.A. Preston ; cast, Calvin Frazier, Charles Frank Lucas, Gavin Senter, May Brymn, Jerome Preston Bates, Keith Whitney, Chuck Patterson, Rameek Bell.

Summary:

Biographical sketch of the Afro-American writer, Richard Wright. Includes a discussion of his literary works. Follows his involvement in some of the social events of the time: the Chicago black cultural renaissance of the 1930's, the Communist Party during the Depression, witch-hunts of the McCarthy era, and the Pan-African liberation movement of the 1950's.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)31763719

Locations:

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)