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1908 - Born in Natchez, Mississipi
1932 - transferred to Chicago and joined the Communist Party
- also became a major contributor to the party's magazine and newspapers
1938 - Uncle Tom's Children
1940 - completed his most celebrated work entitled Native Son, a story of a Chicago youth victimized by a society owith the dominance of White
1941 - received the Spingarn Medal
1944 - broke with the party when his high ideals and outspoken militancy contradicted with the party's system
1945 - wrote an autobiography called Black Boy
1947 - moved to Paris and resolved to end racism
1953 - worked on his novel The Outsider
1954 - made a non-fiction entitled Black Power which was about the emerging African nation
1957 - published a collection of essays tackling racial issues called White Man, Listen!
1958 - The Long Dream
1960 - died
1961 - Eight Men, an array of short stories he wrote, was published
1977 - sequel of Black Boy entitled American Hunger came out
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