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...cannot have an American experience without also having a Black experience, Ralph Ellison told a standing-room-only audience at Boylston Auditorium Saturday...
...Ellison, who won the 1953 National Book Award for fiction for his novel, "Invisible Man," spoke along with three other prominent black American scholars in a three-and-a-half-hour symposium held in tribute to Alain L. Locke '08, one of the University's first black graduates...
...Ellison, last of the four speakers, said America is a conglomeration of cultures and the art created here reflects an ethnic mixture. Using jazz as an example, he cited Louis Armstrong's jazz-blues style as having a mixture of French Creole and military roots...
...School Committee voted unanimously in November to oppose the plan. School committeeman Paul Ellison commented: "I would go to jail before I would let a single child be bused without parental consent," even though the plan, as mentioned, does not call for forced busing. "The people will not accept this," stated ex-Committee Committee chairman James Hennigan. "The only solution I can see is the repeal of the Racial Imbalance Law and to start all over again...
...goals of scholarship should also include a search for value: a search for "the good" in classical terms. Claims that the Afro-American experience is unique, must be tested against Ellison's reminder that the black experience is a variant of the human experience. It comprises the reaction of men and women to unforgettable racism, to terror, urbanization, the bomb, and to Americanization...