Black History 365 | # 139 Ralph Ellison July 22, 2024 Ralph Ellison is a writer, teacher, whose novel "Invisible Man" (1952) gained a wide critical success. He has highlighted racial issues to express universal dilemmas of identity and self-discovery but avoided taking a straightforward political stand. "Literature is colorblind," he once said. Many artists of the Black Arts movement rejected Ellison for his insistence that America be a land of cultural exchange and synergy. Talented in many fields, Ellison also was an accomplished jazz trumpeter and a free-lance photographer.
