Part one of term paper
For Richard Wright (for any black person) Mississippi was probably the worst place to grow up. The South in general was a difficult place to live; white people were continuously trying to keep black people down, from ever rising up and making things better for themselves. By telling black people from the time they were born that they were i ...

Part two of term paper
... was racist, the North was antislavery and it was the place to be if you were black, but getting there was the hardest part, many people tried all their lives and didn’t succeed. For Richard going north was the main goal in his early life; but because of Mississippi’s racial indifferences Richard would be forever separated from whites, the tension would always be there and he would never trust a white person enough to let his guard down. Racial prejudice had indefinitely effected Richard ...