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1.
"Black Boy: A Negro writes a bitter autobiography," photoessay in Life by George Karger [with

Creator:
Karger, George
Published / Created:
1945 Jun 4
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 3
Collection Title:
Richard Wright papers
Container / Volume:
Box 119 | Folder 1926
Image Count:
8
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Alternative Title:
Life Magazine
Publisher:
[Time Inc.]
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "Black Boy: A Negro writes a bitter autobiography," photoessay in Life by George Karger [with Italian translation of article for Il Politecnico

2.
"Change the World" [open letter to Richard Wright], printed version, Daily Worker

Creator:
Gold, Michael, 1893-1967
Published / Created:
1940 Sep 29
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 3
Collection Title:
Richard Wright papers
Container / Volume:
Box 89 | Folder 1098
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name):
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
Subject (Topic):
African American authors--20th century--Archives and Authors, American--20th century--Archives
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "Change the World" [open letter to Richard Wright], printed version, Daily Worker

3.
"The Mob and the Elite," [article] printed version, Partisan Review

Creator:
Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.
Published / Created:
n.d.
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 3
Collection Title:
Richard Wright papers
Container / Volume:
Box 89 | Folder 1086
Image Count:
8
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name):
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
Subject (Topic):
African American authors--20th century--Archives and Authors, American--20th century--Archives
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "The Mob and the Elite," [article] printed version, Partisan Review

4.
Algren, Nelson

Creator:
Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981
Published / Created:
1939-45
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 3
Collection Title:
Richard Wright papers
Container / Volume:
Box 93 | Folder 1167
Image Count:
57
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Alternative Title:
[Letter from Mrs. Abraham]
Description:
Last letter from Nelson Algren's mother to Richard Wright.
Subject (Topic):
African American authors --20th century --Archives and Authors, American --20th century --Archives
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Algren, Nelson

5.
Argentina Sono Film, S.A.C.I.

Published / Created:
1949-51
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 3
Collection Title:
Richard Wright papers
Container / Volume:
Box 93 | Folder 1180
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name):
Argentina Sono Film--Correspondence and Wright, Richard, 1908-1960--Correspondence
Subject (Topic):
African American authors --20th century --Archives and Authors, American --20th century --Archives
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Argentina Sono Film, S.A.C.I.

6.
Background materials - clippings

Published / Created:
1938-39
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 3
Collection Title:
Richard Wright papers
Container / Volume:
Box 120 | 1932-1935
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Alternative Title:
Sunday times, The Times, and Times (Chicago, Ill. : 1894)
Description:
Multiple articles and photographs.
Publisher:
The Newspaper Co
Subject (Geographic):
Chicago (Ill.) --Newspapers and South Chicago (Chicago, Ill.)
Subject (Name):
Dirksen, Everett McKinley, Hopkins, Harry Lloyd, 1890-1946, Jones, Jesse H. (Jesse Holman), 187, Lamour, Dorothy, 1914-1996, Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945, and Temple, Shirley, 1928-
Subject (Topic):
Infant mortality --Illinois, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Tenement houses --Illinois --Chicago, and Wieboldt stores, inc.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Background materials - clippings

7.
Baldwin, James

Creator:
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987
Published / Created:
1945 Dec 27
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 3
Collection Title:
Richard Wright papers
Container / Volume:
Box 94 | Folder 1201
Image Count:
8
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name):
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Baldwin, James

9.
Clippings on racism and crime found with background materials

Published / Created:
1941-47
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 3
Collection Title:
Richard Wright papers
Container / Volume:
Box 120 | Folder 1936
Image Count:
8
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Alternative Title:
True Detective
Description:
Pages of article written in red pencil at top of relevant pages; page 4 not consecutive.
Subject (Geographic):
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) and Hollywood Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.) --Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Carmen, Tom, Egan, Leon D., Fletcher, Hal, Gains, C.W., Graham, Chester, Humphries, A.B., Smith, Bill, and Wright, Herbert C
Subject (Topic):
Crime --California --Los Angeles --Case studies, Detective and mystery stories, American --California --Los Angeles, and Owl Drug Company
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Clippings on racism and crime found with background materials

10.
Confesses brick killing ...

Published / Created:
1938 May 29
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 3
Collection Title:
Richard Wright papers
Container / Volume:
Box 120 | Folder 1933
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Alternative Title:
Sunday times, The Times, and Times (Chicago, Ill. : 1894)
Publisher:
The Newspaper Co
Subject (Geographic):
Chicago (Ill.) --Newspapers
Subject (Name):
Crosby, Thomas and Nixon, Robert
Subject (Topic):
Murder --Illinois --Chicago and Murder --Press coverage --United States
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Confesses brick killing ...

12.
Documents for Bandung Conference

Creator:
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
Published / Created:
1955
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 3
Collection Title:
Richard Wright papers
Container / Volume:
Box 113 | Folder 1813
Image Count:
7
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name):
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
Subject (Topic):
African American authors --20th century --Archives and Authors, American --20th century --Archives
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Documents for Bandung Conference

14.
Ellison, Ralph

Creator:
Ellison, Ralph
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
Published / Created:
1937-53
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 3
Collection Title:
Richard Wright papers
Container / Volume:
Box 97 | Folder 1314
Image Count:
59
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name):
Ellison, Ralph and Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
Subject (Topic):
African American authors --20th century --Archives
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ellison, Ralph

16.
Fiend slays mother of 2

Published / Created:
1938 May 27
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 3
Collection Title:
Richard Wright papers
Container / Volume:
Box 120 | Folder 1933
Image Count:
3
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Alternative Title:
Daily times, The Times, and Times (Chicago, Ill. : 1894)
Publisher:
The Newspaper Co
Subject (Geographic):
Chicago (Ill.) --Newspapers
Subject (Name):
Crosby, Thomas, Johnson, Florence, and Nixon, Robert
Subject (Topic):
Murder --Illinois --Chicago and Murder --Press coverage --United States
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Fiend slays mother of 2

20.
Gold, Mike (draft of letter to Gold from Richard Wright)

Creator:
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
Published / Created:
[1940?]
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 3
Collection Title:
Richard Wright papers
Container / Volume:
Box 98 | Folder 1354
Image Count:
10
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Alternative Title:
Draft of letter to Mike Gold from Richard Wright
Subject (Name):
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
Subject (Topic):
African American authors --20th century --Archives and Authors, American --20th century --Archives
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Gold, Mike (draft of letter to Gold from Richard Wright)

21.
Gould, Walter

Creator:
Gould, Walter
Published / Created:
1942-52
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 3
Collection Title:
Richard Wright papers
Container / Volume:
Box 98 | Folder 1359
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Includes letter from Wright
Subject (Name):
Gould, Walter--Correspondence and Wright, Richard, 1908-1960--Correspondence
Subject (Topic):
African American authors --20th century --Archives and Authors, American --20th century --Archives
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Gould, Walter

22.
Grill captives in search for moron slayer of woman ...

Published / Created:
1938 May 28
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 3
Collection Title:
Richard Wright papers
Container / Volume:
Box 120 | Folder 1933
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Alternative Title:
Chicago daily tribune (Chicago, Ill. : 1872) and Chicago tribune
Publisher:
Tribune Co
Subject (Geographic):
Chicago (Ill.) --Newspapers
Subject (Name):
Crosby, Thomas, Johnson, Florence, and Nixon, Robert
Subject (Topic):
Murder --Illinois --Chicago and Murder --Press coverage --United States
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Grill captives in search for moron slayer of woman ...

24.
Houseman, John

Published / Created:
1940-43
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 3
Collection Title:
Richard Wright papers
Container / Volume:
Box 99 | Folder 1396
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Description:
Versos blank, not digitized.
Subject (Name):
Houseman, John--Correspondence and Wright, Richard, 1908-1960--Correspondence
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Houseman, John

25.
Illustrations by Clarence G. Hackett [ten block prints]

Creator:
Hackett, Clarence G
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
Published / Created:
1942
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 3
Collection Title:
Richard Wright papers
Container / Volume:
120a | 1936a-j
Image Count:
10
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name):
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
Subject (Topic):
African American authors--20th century--Archives
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Illustrations by Clarence G. Hackett [ten block prints]

26.
Indonesia

Creator:
Indonesia. Departemen Luar Negeri
Published / Created:
ca. 1950-59
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 3
Collection Title:
Richard Wright papers
Container / Volume:
Box 135 | 2000-2006
Image Count:
17
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name):
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
Subject (Topic):
African American authors --20th century --Archives and Authors, American --20th century --Archives
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Indonesia

27.
Interviews and Profiles - in English

Published / Created:
1940-56
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 3
Collection Title:
Richard Wright papers
Container / Volume:
Box 122 | Folder 1962
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name):
Ebony and Ebony magazine
Subject (Topic):
African American authors --20th century --Archives, African Americans --Periodicals, and Authors, American --20th century --Archives
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Interviews and Profiles - in English

30.
Mate slugs youth who slew wife

Published / Created:
1938 June 7
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 3
Collection Title:
Richard Wright papers
Container / Volume:
Box 120 | Folder 1934
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Alternative Title:
Daily times, Slugs wife's slayer, The Times, and Times (Chicago, Ill. : 1894)
Publisher:
The Newspaper Co
Subject (Geographic):
Chicago (Ill.) --Newspapers
Subject (Name):
Crosby, Thomas, Johnson, Elmer, Johnson, Florence, and Nixon, Robert
Subject (Topic):
Murder --Illinois --Chicago and Murder --Press coverage --United States
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mate slugs youth who slew wife

31.
Mock Newspaper, The Chicago View, with headline: "Dick Wright Noted Author Off to N.Y."

Published / Created:
n.d.
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 3
Collection Title:
Richard Wright papers
Container / Volume:
Box 122 | Folder 1968
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Front page of mock newspaper The Chicago View.
Subject (Topic):
African American authors --20th century --Archives, African Americans --Periodicals, and Authors, American --20th century --Archives
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mock Newspaper, The Chicago View, with headline: "Dick Wright Noted Author Off to N.Y."

32.
Nkrumah, Kwame

Creator:
Nkrumah, Kwame, 1909-1972
Published / Created:
1953
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 3
Collection Title:
Richard Wright papers
Container / Volume:
Box 102 | Folder 1504
Image Count:
12
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name):
Nkrumah, Kwame, 1909-1972 and Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
Subject (Topic):
African American authors--20th century--Archives and Authors, American--20th century--Archives
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Nkrumah, Kwame

33.
Padmore, George

Creator:
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
Published / Created:
1946-59
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 3
Collection Title:
Richard Wright papers
Container / Volume:
Box 103 | Folder 1522
Image Count:
13
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Includes letters to George Padmore from: Saul Blackman, C.L.R. James, J.H. Kelly and Frank Leach
Subject (Name):
Blackman, Saul, Padmore, George, 1903-1959, and Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
Subject (Topic):
African American authors --20th century --Archives
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Padmore, George

34.
Passports and visas

Published / Created:
1950, 1957
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 3
Collection Title:
Richard Wright papers
Container / Volume:
Box 117 | Folder 1882
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Topic):
African American authors--20th century--Archives and Authors, American--20th century--Archives
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Passports and visas

35.
Paul R. Reynolds, Inc.

Creator:
Reynolds, Paul R. (Paul Revere), 1904-1988
Published / Created:
1945-72
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 3
Collection Title:
Richard Wright papers
Container / Volume:
Box 104 | 1536-1540
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Description:
Verso blank, not digitized.
Subject (Name):
Reynolds, Paul R. (Paul Revere), 1904-1988--Correspondence and Wright, Richard, 1908-1960--Correspondence
Subject (Topic):
African American authors--20th century--Archives and Authors, American--20th century--Archives
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Paul R. Reynolds, Inc.

37.
Photographs [22 prints]

Published / Created:
n.d.
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 3
Collection Title:
Richard Wright papers
Container / Volume:
Box 118 | Folder 1884
Image Count:
48
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
Includes: Baby Lois
Subject (Name):
Wright, Ellen, 1912?-2004 and Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
Subject (Topic):
African American authors--20th century--Archives, Authors, American--20th century--Archives, and Communists--United States
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Photographs [22 prints]

38.
Photographs and pictures of Richard Wright

Creator:
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
Published / Created:
1940-59
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 3
Collection Title:
Richard Wright papers
Container / Volume:
Box 113 | Folder 1800
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Alternative Title:
J.-P. Sartre|Richard Wright|Jean Anouilh|Darius Milhaud|Denise Duval
Subject (Name):
Anouilh, Jean, 1910-1987, Duval, Denise, Milhaud, Darius, 1892-1974, and Wright, Richard,--1908-1960
Subject (Topic):
African American authors--20th century--Archives and Authors, American--20th century--Archives
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Photographs and pictures of Richard Wright

40.
Photographs of Spain [69 prints and 18 negatives of religious processions and candid shots of

Creator:
From the Collection: Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
Published / Created:
[1954]
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 3
Container / Volume:
Box 54, folder 655-657
Image Count:
186
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Richard Wright papers (JWJ MSS 3) > Series I: Writings > BOOKS > Pagan Spain > Photographs of Spain [69 prints and 18 negatives of religious processions and candid shots of Spaniards - taken by Wright or purchased as souvenirs]

41.
Photographs of rehearsal, including Canada Lee, Paul Green, Lionel Stander and Orson Welles [20

Published / Created:
1941
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 3
Collection Title:
Richard Wright papers
Container / Volume:
Box 82 | Folder 930
Image Count:
44
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Subject (Name):
Burr, Anne, 1920-2003, Collins, Ray, 1889-1965, Ellis, Evelyn, 1894-1958, Green, Paul, 1894-1981, Lee, Canada, Martin, Helen, 1909-2000, Stander, Lionel, Welles, Orson, 1915-1985, and Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
Subject (Topic):
African American authors --20th century --Archives and Authors, American --20th century --Archives
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Photographs of rehearsal, including Canada Lee, Paul Green, Lionel Stander and Orson Welles [20 prints with 2 copyprints]

46.
Provisional constitution of the Republic of Indonesia

Creator:
Indonesia. Departemen Luar Negeri
Published / Created:
1950 August 15
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 3
Collection Title:
Richard Wright papers
Container / Volume:
Box 135 | Folder 2000
Image Count:
22
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Publisher:
Pertjetakan negara
Subject (Geographic):
Indonesia --Politics and government and Indonesia. Constitution (1950)
Subject (Topic):
African American authors --20th century --Archives and Authors, American --20th century --Archives
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Provisional constitution of the Republic of Indonesia

48.
Sablonière, Margrit de

Creator:
Sablonière, Margrit de
Published / Created:
1954-60
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 3
Collection Title:
Richard Wright papers
Container / Volume:
Box 105 | 1593-1594
Image Count:
3
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name):
Sablonière, Margrit de and Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
Subject (Topic):
African American authors--20th century--Archives and Authors, American--20th century--Archives
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sablonière, Margrit de

49.
Scrapbook of articles published in Daily Worker

Published / Created:
1937 Jun-Dec
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 3
Collection Title:
Richard Wright papers
Container / Volume:
Box 123 | Folder 1969
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Page contains numerous articles pertaining to African Americans with relevant dates written in ink on or near the corresponding article.
Alternative Title:
Negro actors to appear at Mother Bloor fete and Negro writers launch literary quarterly
Subject (Name):
Daily worker (Chicago, Ill.)
Subject (Topic):
African American authors --20th century --Archives, African Americans --Periodicals, and Authors, American --20th century --Archives
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Scrapbook of articles published in Daily Worker

50.
Wertham, Frederic

Published / Created:
1942-52
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 3
Collection Title:
Richard Wright papers
Container / Volume:
Box 139 | Folder 2028
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name):
Gibson, Richard, 1931- --Portrait
Subject (Topic):
African American authors --20th century --Archives and Authors, American --20th century --Archives
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Wertham, Frederic

52.
[Clipping from a] Richard Wright scrapbook

Creator:
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 3
Collection Title:
Richard Wright papers
Container / Volume:
Box 113 | Folder 1800
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Alternative Title:
Richard Wright
Subject (Name):
Wright, Richard,--1908-1960
Subject (Topic):
African American authors--20th century--Archives and Authors, American--20th century--Archives
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Clipping from a] Richard Wright scrapbook

53.
[Eyeglasses and case].

Creator:
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 3
Collection Title:
Richard Wright papers
Container / Volume:
Box 128 | Folder 1974
Image Count:
3
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Eyeglasses with star decorations at the corners. Broken lenses.
Alternative Title:
City life
Description:
Removed from collection.
Subject (Topic):
Eyeglasses
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Eyeglasses and case].

54.
[Letter : Saul Blackman to George Padmore]

Creator:
Blackman, Saul
James, C. L. R. (Cyril Lionel Robert), 1901-1989
Published / Created:
1952-53
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 3
Collection Title:
Richard Wright papers
Container / Volume:
Box 103 | Folder 1522
Image Count:
17
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Includes letters to George Padmore from: Saul Blackman, C. L. R. James, J.H. Kelly and Frank Leach.
Alternative Title:
[Letter : C. L. R. James to George Padmore]
Subject (Name):
James, C. L. R. (Cyril Lionel Robert), 1901-1989, Padmore, George,--1903-1959, and Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
Subject (Topic):
African American authors--20th century--Archives and Authors, American--20th century--Archives
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Letter : Saul Blackman to George Padmore]

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