“Black boy,” an autobiography by Richard Wright, is a blunt exposition to the Jim Crow South. The book starts when Wright burns down his family’s house and has to move down south. Adversity follows when Wright’s father abandons the family to be with another woman. Wright and his mother and brother try to survive in poverty. When his mother gets a paralyzing stroke, the family moves to Jackson to live with grandparents. Wright’s new goal is not only to survive but also to leave the south. Because he hated the religious indoctrination and racism he gets enough money to leave the south and to move to Illinois. Wright does not hesitate to show the inequity and racism of the Jim Crow South. His story shows the brutal unspoken apartheid that was not fully resolved till the 1960’s.  

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Outside Reading Trailer

Coming this summer to a theater near you. From the studio that brought you Native Son, The Outsider, and The Long Dream.

Directed by Steven Spielberg, The New York Times has rated it “ a must see.”

The renowned author Richard Wright's long awaited auto-biography “Black Boy” which has finally been adapted to film.

“Black Boy,” the story of one black boy and his struggle to survive and escape the racist Jim Crow south. With a childhood of desertion hunger and poverty and an adolescence of religious indoctrination, theft, cruelty and neglect; this is Richard wrights true story of escaping the white man’s world.

Starring

Tyler James Williams, and Chris Rock as Richard Wright,

Forest Whitaker as Nathan Wright his absent farther,

Viola Davis as Ella Wilson Wright the compassionate but crippled mother, and Meryl Streep as Margaret Bolton Wilson the religious grandmother who tries to save her grandson's soul.

JUNE 2010