My Grandpops, Richard Wright, and the Chicago Post Office
Not all history makes headlines, and that’s okay
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5 min readFeb 18, 2021
It wasn’t until I was a grown woman that I fully realized the significance of my grandfather working alongside — and befriending — a guy named Richard Wright at the Chicago post office. My pops, a church elder, and Wright, a writer becoming, were both sorters at the old main post office…
