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United States Post Office Honors Communist With Postage Stamp.

The United States Post Office has released a postage stamp honoring a well-established supporter of the Communist Party of America.

The shocking stamp of African-American author Richard Wright, whose books Native Son and Black Boy reveal an angry and hateful person, is part of the Post Office’s Literary Art Series.

In 1927, Wright moved to Chicago, Illinois and became “involved” with the Communist Party, writing stories and articles for The Daily Worker and The New Masses. He then moved to Harlem, New York in 1937, where he became the editor of Harlem edition of The Daily Worker.

This is not the first time the United States Post Office has released a stamp of an America-hating Communist, an honor once exclusively held for Presidents and other pro-American historical figures. In 2004, a stamp featuring fellow Communist Party member and International Stalin Prize winner Paul Robeson was released.

Like Robeson, Wright never denounced The Great Purge that occurred in the Soviet Union and the illegally-occupied Eastern European nations.

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