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- ↑ John Logie (2005). "We Write for the Workers: Authorship and Communism in Kenneth Burke and Richard Wright". K. B. Journal. 1 (2).
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- ↑ "Richard N. Wright". Visit Natchez. Retrieved May 31, 2010.
- ↑ Ward, Jerry Washington (2008). The Richard Wright Encyclopedia. [Greenwood Press]. p. 137. ISBN 978-0-313-31239-7 . Retrieved May 31, 2010.
