Richard Wright's Go Tell It On The Mountain

Richard Wright was an excellent author in the 1930’s. He wrote about hunger, poverty, race, prejudice, and various protest movements. Many of Wright’s characters were a product of their background; angry and uneducated. He was an author, a journalist, and a poet, but his best known works are “Black Boy” and “Native Son”. His friend, James Baldwin, was also a writer during this time as a novelist and essayist. He wrote about race, homosexuality, interracial relationships, and many other controversial or taboo subjects of his day. His most famous work was “Go Tell It On The Mountain.” which was about a young African American boy and his dealings with the Christian Church and his religiously strict father.
Ellison, Wright, and Baldwin’s writing