Richard Wright and the Library Card
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By Smithsonian Magazine
In 1920s Memphis, the young man who would become a great American writer could not borrow books from the whites-only library. Ultimately, Wright forged his own passage to Dickens and Tolstoy: Miller’s transcendent account of this moment is memorable indeed.
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