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Ralph Ellison's Oklahoma City
1913
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Born here and named for Emerson, Ellison played trumpet in the Deep Deuce clubs before leaving for Tuskegee. He called Oklahoma a frontier without the settled racial script of the Deep South, and said that shaped what became Invisible Man.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: city-level
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