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...cook was dismissed; Wright stayed...
...1930s Wright embraced the interracial promise of the Communist Party. With "eyes as round and open and wet as morning-glories," he made the first real emotional commitment of his life. But it was not, as they say, a two-way street. The party was interested in him only insofar as it could use him. He was promptly elected executive secretary of his unit because the faction supporting him figured that the opposition would not dare vote against a bona fide Negro...
...unit boss, Wright had to deal with a fiery newcomer who, presumably acting on orders from above, denounced a veteran Communist and almost broke up the organization. Suddenly the intruder disappeared, and Wright learned that he had been returned to the mental asylum from which he had escaped. "What kind of club did we run," thought...
...Wright, "that a lunatic could step into it and help run it? Were we all so mad that we could not detect a madman when...
...Though Wright had only a grade-school education and worked at menial jobs, he was constantly under suspicion as an intellectual. "He talks like a book," a comrade complained. Observed Wright: "That was enough to condemn me forever as bourgeois." Disregarding warning signals, he tried to interview party members for a series of articles explaining Communism to the Negro masses. Party suspicion became sulfurous. A comrade pointedly reminded him that intellectuals were frequently shot in the Soviet Union. Wright became certain that if his American comrades ever came to power, that would be his fate as well. "I began...