5/30/2023 0 Comments Native son 1940Before the jury found Nixon guilty in the that case, per the Chicago Tribune, cops claimed that Nixon had confessed to murdering five people in the past, though his defense argued that he was coerced and threatened into doing so. The New York Times' obituary for Wright even mentions the real events that inspired Native Son, which was the story of Robert Nixon, an 18 year-old Black man in Chicago who received the death penalty after a jury found him guilty of killing a white woman in 1938. While Native Son is not based on a true story, exactly, Wright spoke out in numerous instances in his lifetime - the author died in France in 1960 - about how true life events had inspired the tale of Bigger Thomas (Sanders). The film adaptation of Richard Wright's groundbreaking 1940 novel stars Moonlight's Ashton Sanders, Sanaa Lathan, and If Beale Street Could Talk's KiKi Layne. On April 6 Native Son will be released on HBO following the film's premiere at Sundance earlier this year.
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