ENGL 3550 Lecture Notes - Atlanta Exposition Speech, Ralph Ellison, Amazon River
18 Mar 2013
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N. b. updated guidelines for midterm test on courselink: practice question via quizzes link on courselink, we will talk about mid-term after break. Double consciousness: and sexual politics, expressionism ( epilogue ) Journey from isolation and victimhood to attempts at solidarity and resistance: union meeting in factory, the brotherhood, black political figures. Turn-of-the-twentieth-century educator: tuskegee institute, alabama college he founded that ellison went to and is referenced in book. See 15, 18, 29-30 (speech), 36, 305ff http://historymatters. gmu. edu/d/88/ Booker t. washington"s atlanta compromise speech, 1895 (recorded 1903) Mr. president and gentlemen of the board of directors and citizens. No enterprise seeking the material, civil, or moral welfare of this section can disregard this element of our population and reach the highest success. It is a recognition that will do more to cement the friendship of the two races than any occurrence since the dawn of our freedom.
