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(1914–94), American writer and educator, born in Oklahoma City, Okla., and educated at Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University), Tuskegee, Ala. His best-known work, Invisible Man (1952), expounds the theme that American society willfully ignores blacks. The novel, one of the first works to describe modern racial problems in America from the point of view of the black, received the National Book Award for fiction in 1953. Ellison wrote many magazine articles and short stories and lectured at colleges and universities on the subject of the black American. His work includes two essay collections, Shadow and Act (1964) and Going to the Territory (1986). From 1970 to 1979 he was Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities at New York University. He was one of the first recipients of the National Medal of Arts in 1985. A heavily edited version of his unfinished novel Juneteenth (1999) was published posthumously.
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Ralph Ellison: Origins of "Invisible Man"
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In this speech listen to Ralph Ellison talk about his first and only novel, "Invisible Man." He talks about the origins of the novel and what it meant to other African American writers.
In this speech listen to Ralph Ellison talk about his first and only novel, "Invisible Man." He talks about the origins of the novel and what it meant to other African American writers.
This Day In History: 04/19/1995 - Oklahoma City Bombing
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This Day in History, April 19th. The first Boston Marathon is run, "the shot heard around the world" is coined in the Ralph Waldo Emerson poem, Concord Hymn, Grace Kelly becomes Princess Grace of Monaco, and Pope Benedict is elected.
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This Day in History, January 28th. The Challenger space shuttle tragically explodes killing Christa McAuliffe, Henry the Eighth dies, Congress creates the Coast Guard, and the Paris Peace Accord ends the Vietnam War in our This Day in History recap.
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