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Richard Wright was born on September 4th, 1908, and passed away on November 28th in the year of 1960. Richard was only 52 years old when he passed away. He was born at the Ruckers Plantation in Natchez, Mississippi. His dad Nathaniel was a sharecropper for the illiterate while his mother Ella worked at a school as a teacher. When young Richard was only 5 years of age, his dad decided it was time for him to up and leave his family behind which forced Richard’s mother El, Ella, to do the domestic work. In 1920, Ella had worked herself so hard that she was diagnosed as a stroke patient. Due to working so hard and receiving the stroke, Ella eventually became paralyzed. After a while, Ella and her son Richard moved to Jackson, Mississippi to live with Richard’s maternal grandparents. Richards' biggest goal was to leave the south and get away from the Jim Crow Laws. In December of 1927, he did just that as he took the train and headed north to Chicago. After he got settled into Chicago and embraced the change in scenery, he worked a bunch of different odd jobs to have some sort of income flowing. In 1938, his literary career took off when his short Uncle Tom’s Children won first prize. He married a white Communist party member by the name of Ellen Poplar and had two beautiful daughters by the time 1949 had rolled around.