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Richard Wright 1945-1955

By RjSchmidt22

  • Richard Wright wrote the Black Boy

  • FDR dies

  • Hitler commits suicide

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  • Howard Hobson invents 3 point line in basketball

  • Harry S. Truman becomes the 33rd president of the U.S.

  • U.S. bombs Hiroshima

  • Richard Wright moved to Paris

  • Jackie Robinson is first African American to play pro baseball

  • Discrimination was banned in armed forces

  • Ghandi was assassinated

  • Wrights second daughter Rachel was born

  • Wright contributed to the anti-communist anthology "The God That Failed"

  • Richard Wright starred in an Argentenian film

  • Korean War begins

  • Richard Wright wrote and essay called I Choose Excile

  • Color TV introduced

  • Richard Wright published The Outsider

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes 34th pesident of the U.S.

  • DNA was discovered

  • Richard Wright published Savage Holiday

  • Wright published Black Power

  • Segregation ruled illegal in the U.S.

  • Wright visited Indonesia for the Bandung Conference

  • Disneyland opens

  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up seat on bus