Wright was vilified by the American Left, liberals, and state bureaucrats alike

Evidence

But another and equally important source for the undefined character of Wright’s legacy is the several and remarkably extensive campaigns of vilification launched against him by the American Left, the American liberal intelligentsia and American bureaucrats. These ranged from the literary attacks on Wright by writers such as James Baldwin, to the political assaults of figures like James Ford, Ben Burns, then editor of Ebony, the deliberately distorted reports in Time magazine on Wright and others, the machinations of the Central Intelligence Agency, and threats from once-powerful, but now almost forgotten anti-Communists like David Schine. It appears to be a fair statement that though these distinct and, in some instances, opposing political factions had rather different interests in the destruction of Wright’s influence on American politics and literature, they did concur on the desirability of the suppression of his work and ideas. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1329