Hosted by the League of American Writers, a Communist-affiliated group for which Wright would soon be elected a vice-president, the symposium gathered soon-to-be-blacklisted screenwriters, the future production chief of MGM, and emerging leaders of the civil-rights movement to argue the merits of adapting Wright’s controversial novel. “Should the Novel Native Son Be Made Into a Motion Picture?” This was the name of a symposium held at Hollywood’s Roosevelt Hotel in May, 1940-just two and a half months after the publication of Richard Wright’s best-selling novel.
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