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Black Boy is the autobiography of Richard Wright’s life from his youth in the early twentieth century south to his years searching for employment in Chicago during the Great Depression. In America during this time period, many African-Americans struggled through racial discrimination in the South and migrated to the North in search of opportunity. The majority of Wright's social, cultural, economic, and political experiences in Black Boy represent those of a typical African-American in early twentieth century America; however, some of his attitudes to racism were not the norm at the time. Wright grew up in the South in the early twentieth century, where racism against African-Americans was a part of life that both he and his mother had to deal with on a daily basis. However, Wright’s views toward racism were quite different from his mother’s views. When he was younger, he questioned his mother about blacks and whites, but she did not answer his questions (Wright 47). Because of his lack of education, he was not fully aware of the racial relations at the time. At the age of six, Wright began drinking with white people at saloons; however, he did not know that his actions at the saloons were solely for the entertainment