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Emancipation proclamation
Leonard, John | June 14, 1999 issue

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The article discusses the book "Juneteenth," by Ralph Ellison. Upon his death in 1994, Ralph Ellison left behind some 2,000 pages of a never-finished second novel-more than forty years of fine-tuning what his literary executor, John Callahan, calls a "mythic saga of race and identity, language and kinship in the American experience." From Ellison's notes and drafts Callahan has fashioned a shapely synecdoche that coheres-a duet between "Daddy" Hickman, the black Southern preacher who's come to Washington in 1955 to warn a man he raised as a boy of impending violence, and Sunraider, the white New England senator who was brought up black but turned savagely on the color of kindness.

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ELLISON, Ralph; JUNETEENTH (Book); CALLAHAN, John; BLACK; CLERGY; VIOLENCE
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