... away. Because of this, his mother was forced to work as a nursemaid, janitress, and domestic in order to take care of herself as well as her two boys. At the age of six, Ralph began to attend Frederick ... Richard Wright wrote about white society's negative influence on black culture and joined the Communist party in the 1930s and beginning in 1937 worked as an editor for the party's Daily Worker newspaper in New York City. Ellison wrote his first book in 1939 and named it Slick Gonna Learn. His best-known work, the novel Native Son ... 's second novel Shadow and Act. It was a collection...

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• Grade Level: High School