Abstract

A Native at Large

Paul Green and Richard Wright are working at one table in these hot weeks in Chapel Hill, North Carolina dramatizing Wright's book "Native Son" for production by Orson Welles this fall. The dramatization may be as important as the drama. Green is a Southerner of white, Southern-farmer stock. Wright has become the city Negro. Wright wrote his grim Chicago story to show the effects on a Negro of the social and economic problems confronting his race. These two, as they work in Chapel Hill while so many other American minds are on war abroad, know that it is easier to see the results in Chicago, Illinois, at the end of baffled migration from Mississippi than it is to make some sense and safety where the slow, bundle-carrying, timid, and determined movement of Negroes and little white men begins.