Word: whe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shined shoes and played first trumpet in a jazz band, obviously thinks little of Negroes who educate themselves beyond the point of sympathy for their underprivileged brethren. He has no prescriptions except that a Negro, or any man, had better learn to be what he is. "Whenever I discover whe I am, I'll be free," says the boy. "I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own." At the end, the fog of his confusions lifting, Author Ellison's hero thinks of his slave grandfather, knows that, "Hell, he never had any doubts...