Peter Lennon, ‘One of Uncle Tom’s children’, Guardian, 8th December 1960, p. 8.

Richard Wright interview before his ‘Tour of French Black Africa’:

Lennon question to Richard Wright: ‘James Baldwin said that the Southerner suffered under delusion that he “understood” the negro while the Northerner believes he has set him free. Do you agree with that?’

Wright: “I agree with Baldwin, partly. But the Northerner can’t believe he has set the Negro free. In the North the Negro lives in a ghetto. The difference in the Negro’s situation in the North and South arises out of a difference in societies. In the South it is agrarian, harsher and harder: in the North, industrial — and there are different kinds of pressure.”