Richard Wright One incident that had a great impact on Richard Wright's life was something that occurred when he was young and beginning to learn the true ways of the white people. This is actually just one part of a series of events that opened his eyes what was going on between races in the South. At this point Wright had begun a job as a porter in a clothing store which opened up the chance for his first real racially biased encounters. First of all in the store itself the owner and his son openly mistreated negro customers by slapping, kicking, and pushing them in front of Richard. Also in the....

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