Ellison Ralph

Juneteenth : a novel / Ralph Ellison ; edited by John F. Callahan ; preface by Charles Johnson. - 1st Vintage International ed. - New York : Vintage Books, 2000, 1999. - xxxi, 368 p. ; 21 cm.

The story of a black man who passes for white and becomes a race-baiting U.S. senator. When he is shot on the Senate floor, the first visitor in hospital is a black musician-turned-preacher who raised him. As the two men talk, their respective stories come out. An unfinished novel by the author of Invisible Man.

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African American clergy--Fiction
Passing Identity--Fiction
African Americans--Fiction
Race relations--Fiction
Legislators--Fiction
Blacks--United States
Race Relations--United States
Literature Modern--United States


Southern States--Fiction


Historical fiction.

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