Black Boy Mike Was Tragically Blinded in

Mike Was Tragically Blinded in Late 1917 by Exploding Shell Shrapne

and the Role of Empirical Approaches

Having Lived at the Ymca

and Up-To-

Which He Knows As Mars

Black Boy Mike Was Tragically Blinded inAt Four Years of Age, Richard Wright Set Fire to His Home; at Five His Father Deserted the Family; by Six Richard Was Temporarily an Alcoholic. Moved From Home to Home, From Brick Tenement to Orphanage, He Had Had, by the Age of Twelve, Only One Year's Formal Education. It Was in Saloons, Railroad Yards and Streets That He Learned the Facts About Life Under White Subjection, About Fear, Hunger and Hatred. Gradually He Learned to Play Jim Crow in Order