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Contributors: Robert Ball, Marguerite Johnson, Dominique Moisi, Christopher Ogden, Frederick Painton, Michael Walsh...
...father, a small businessman who named him after Ralph Waldo Emerson and died when the child was three. Ralph's mother worked as a domestic and recruited blacks for the Socialist Party. There was no shortage of role models for Ralph; he attended a grammar school named for Frederick Douglass and won a scholarship to Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute. While in the Merchant Marines during World War II, he published several short stories. One day, just after the war, he found himself typing, "I am an invisible man." He spent seven years developing that sentence into the work...
Contributors: Robert Ball, Marguerite Johnson, Dominique Moisi, Christopher Ogden, Frederick Painton, Michael Walsh...
Contributors: Robert Ball, Marguerite Johnson, Dominique Moisi, Christopher Ogden, Frederick Painton, Michael Walsh...
Contributors: Robert Ball, Marguerite Johnson, Dominique Moisi, Christopher Ogden, Frederick Painton, Michael Walsh...