![]() ![]() However, as the Civil Rights Movement progressed, Ellison often found himself the target of black critics who accused him of choosing acceptance by white society over his African-American identity. Influenced by an artistic heritage that ranged from jazz to Ernest Hemingway, Ellison sought to transcend the racial categories that so starkly divided America in the 1950s. In 1952, Ellison published Invisible Man, the story of a nameless African-American man navigating America during the mid-twentieth century. ![]() Ralph Ellison did turn out to be a man of letters and, like his namesake, sought out universal truths through his art. The father, a great lover of literature, named his son Ralph Waldo Ellison and believed that his boy would also grow up to be a poet. On 1 March 1913, an African-American couple in Oklahoma City had their first baby boy. ![]()
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