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so when you came up there, instead of being richard wright the butler, you're richard wright the novelist. you could be zori the folklorist instead of the maid. it changed their whole life. so then what we have bronzeville, i'm going to talk about particularly because that's my -- i have an affinity for bronzeville, that's our neighborhood. but bronzeville was the area that everybody was kind of confined to when they came to chicago. and so we had a certain perimeter we couldn't go past. i know many of you scholars are familiar with the 1919 riot and all that happened there. part of that had to do with that confinement of us not being able to go out of certain boundaries. so now what was -- what was bronzeville was also considered the black metropolis or black hollywood. and so people came together and there were thriving businesses. they had no choice but to work together. the dollar went throughout the area a hundred times before it went out. so it was thriving. and that's how it was in many communities like that. so we were grateful for that. and so now what we see happening, because i

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a recipient of the richard wright awarded african-american literature as well as numerous other words he is been a guest on oprah, and pr, radio and tv programs across the nation he appears tonight you speak about his latest book think plaque which was just shortlisted for the 2019 prize of social justice. please join me to welcome to the kendall planetary in at the oregon museum of science and industry. [applause] >> thank you leslie and all for being here i cannot tell you how special it is to be here. was just talking with the president, nancy and just re- living my first experience over 40 years ago at washington park and i was a volunteer working with a group that actually was involved i had just come from ibm to go to chiropractic college and i needed something to do around computers and i was able to get computer time by exchanging my work to help them develop the pascal compiler it is that will date yourself but that's how i got involved i used to have a key late at night i would go up at one or two in the morning and say there is a visible lady there we can punch the button s

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