Ralph Ellison Papers 1890-2005 (bulk 1930-1994)

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Ralph Ellison Papers 1890-2005 (bulk 1930-1994)

African-American author and educator. General correspondence, organizational correspondence and reports, family papers, drafts, notes, and production files for novels, essays, poetry, short stories, reviews, and other writings, speeches, lectures, and interviews, reference file, and miscellany documenting Ellison's career and development as a writer. Among the many works represented are (1985), (1952), (1964), and the second novel Ellison left unpublished at his death. Going to the Territory Invisible Man Shadow and Act

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