Native Son

CTL-E-0277 · Work · book · 1940

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1940 novel by Richard Wright about Bigger Thomas, a young Black man on Chicago's South Side.

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Richard Wright's 1940 novel set in Chicago's South Side.

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Standard bibliographic record — Richard Wright, Native Son (1940) (primary source)

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Children at the table in a kitchenette apartment, Chicago, 1941Photo: Russell Lee, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

Children asleep in a kitchenette apartment, Chicago, 1941Photo: Russell Lee, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

Children at a meal, Chicago, 1941Photo: Russell Lee, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

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