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kindly landlady, Mrs. Moss, to marry him to her daughter, Bess. Meanwhile, he began saving in earnest for his escape to the North. His mother, brother, and Aunt Maggie joined him in Memphis and later moved with him to Chicago. Chicago awakened new desires and dreams in Richard, but he was still too afraid to fully acknowledge them. Mired in the sadness and chaos of the great depression, Richard found an ideology that appealed to him in Communism. He felt that he could aid the Communists in spreading their message via his writing, but to his horror and dismay, he soon discovered that petty rivalries and paranoia ran deep among his comrades. He found himself the object of suspicion and distrust because he was branded an "intellectual." After a series of political battles and a great deal of persecution, Richard became estranged from the Party. He was ousted by several Communists when he tried to march in a May Day parade, but he did not let this rejection defeat him. Instead, he resolved to find his own forms of expression and self-realization through his writing....

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