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Behind the Aegis

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Thu Feb 2, 2017, 01:49 AM Feb 2017

50 Iconic Black Trailblazers Who Represent Every State In America

There’s not a single state that hasn’t been touched by black excellence.

36 Oklahoma: Ralph Ellison



Born in 1914 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, novelist Ralph Ellison wrote the classic 1953 National Book Award winner in fiction “Invisible Man.” Ellison was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969.

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Invisible Man

Invisible Man is a novel by Ralph Ellison about an African American man whose color renders him invisible, published by Random House in 1952. It addresses many of the social and intellectual issues facing African-Americans early in the twentieth century, including black nationalism, the relationship between black identity and Marxism, and the reformist racial policies of Booker T. Washington, as well as issues of individuality and personal identity.

Invisible Man won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1953.[1] In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Invisible Man nineteenth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.[2] Time magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005, calling it "the quintessential American picaresque of the 20th century," rather than a "race novel, or even a bildungsroman."[3] Malcolm Bradbury and Richard Ruland recognize an existential vision with a "Kafka-like absurdity".[4] According to The New York Times, U.S. president Barack Obama modeled his memoir Dreams from My Father on Ellison's novel.[5]

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Guess I got another book to read.
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50 Iconic Black Trailblazers Who Represent Every State In America (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Feb 2017 OP
I read it when I was a kid. Warpy Feb 2017 #1

Warpy

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1. I read it when I was a kid.
Thu Feb 2, 2017, 02:03 AM
Feb 2017

Yes, it's an amazing book.

Sheryl Williams Stapleton is my NM Representative. The far right tried to put out a smear campaign against her some years ago and her response was swift, sure, and very classy. I hope she has a very, very long life because I want her representing me in the lege as long as possible.

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