Fear is the Devil's Fire

An African-American who came of age during the Great Depression of the 1930s, Richard Wright was forced to contend with the twin evils of poverty and racism. Embittered by his experiences, Wright began to contribute pieces to radical publications such as the Daily Worker, a socialist-labor newspaper associated with the Communist Party. The same sense of mistrust and anger drove him to write Native Son, a powerful indictment of racial hatred and social injustice, the force of which still resonates today.

Other Edu.Song titles:

"A Shadow Too Long" based on Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmund Rostand
"The Storm Within" based on Hamlet by William Shakespeare
"Ain't Nothing Odd About the Odyssey" based on The Odyssey by Homer