Oral history interview with Ralph Ellison [sound recording] / interviewed by James Lafky and Truman Hayes. 1970 Oct. 19.

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Oral history interview with Ralph Ellison [sound recording] / interviewed by James Lafky and Truman Hayes. 1970 Oct. 19.

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Ellison describes his experiences as an African American author who grew up in Oklahoma and attended the Tuskegee Institute. He discusses his writing style, his novel The Invisible Man, the use of symbolism, African American characters, the author Richard Wright, and jazz music.

1 sound tape reel (ca. 90 min.) : analog, 3 3/4 ips ; 7 in. + 1 transcript (22 leaves ; 28 cm.)

University of Wisconsin - La Crosse, Murphy Library

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University of Wisconsin - La Crosse, Murphy Library

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Hayes, Truman D.

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Lafky, Jim (James L.), 1921-

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Ellison, Ralph, 1914-1994

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African American author, born Ralph Waldo Ellison (1914-1994) in Oklahoma to a family who migrated from South Carolina. From the description of Ralph Ellison papers, 1990-1994. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 32828103 African American author and educator. Born 1914; died 1994. From the description of Ralph Ellison papers, 1890-2005 (bulk 1930-1994). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983760 Ralph Ellison began writing seriously in 1939....

Wright, Richard, 1908-1960

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Richard Nathaniel Wright was born September 4, 1908 near Natchez, Mississippi, to Ella Wilson Wright, a schoolteacher, and Nathan Wright, a sharecropper. The story of Richard Wright's childhood, with its harrowing episodes of abandonment by his father, his temporary consignment to an orphanage after his mother became ill, and his short-lived schooling under the harsh guardianship of his grandmother have been detailed in his autobiography, Black Boy (published in 1945 by Harper & Row)....