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WEVIEW OF ATIANTIC MONTELY ARTICLESs ©] TRIED 10 BR A COMMUNIST® By RICHARD WRIOHT. in the 19k), issue of the The first article eppeared in 0 aetse.icn whieh WRIOET Atlantis Monthly magesine and commenced with So "sie working ia the nor ground politics that cliimed me; my attention was caught by the similarity of the experiences of workers in other lands, by but kindred peoples into a whole. It seemed to ue that here at last, in the realm of revolutionary expression, Negro experience eculd find a hom, « function- ing value and rols*® WRIGHT became a leader in the John Reed Club and contributed te such publications as “left Front", “Anvil, and “lew Masses". In his presentation WRIGHT points out that his first misunderstanding with ether Negro Communists grew out of the fact that because of his publications and writing they classified hiz as an intellectual. He also had difficulty with the Party in Chicago because of his efforts to learn of the life of one ROSS, « Negro Communist. WRIGHT says that ROSS typified the effective street agitator, and was a Southern born Negro who hed migrated to the North, and whose life reflected the crude hopes and frustretions of the peasant in the city. WRIGHT felt that if he @ould get ROSS' story he could make known some of the difficulties inherent in the adjustment of a folk people to an urban environment. Word spread of this activity of WRIGHT in the Commmist Farty, and he was warned to stop sush 2 and the material he had gotten from ROSS and his friends. One such story was published in an anthology under the title of La * . . ~