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Fabre, Michel. "From Native Son to Invisible Man: Some Notes on Ralph Ellison's Evolution in the 1950s." Benston, Speaking 199-216.
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Ford, James W. The Negro People and the New World Situation. Pamphlet. New York: Workers Library, 1941.
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Frank, Joseph. "Ralph Ellison and a Literary 'Ancestor': Dostoevski." Benston, Speaking 231-44.
Garfinkel, Herbert. When Negroes March: The March On Washington Movement in the Organizational Politics for the FEPC. 1959. New York: Atheneum, 1969.
Gibson, Donald B. The Politics of Literary Expression: A Study of Major Black Writers. Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 1981.
Greenberg, Cheryl. "The Politics of Disorder: Reexamining the Harlem Riots of 1935 and 1943." Journal of Urban History 18.4 (1992): 395-441.
Griffiths, Frederick T. "Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, and the Case of Angelo Herndon." African American Review 35 (2001): 615-36.
Hanson, Joanna. "Warsaw Risings." The Oxford Companion to the Second World War. Ed. I. C. B. Dear and M. R. D. Foot. New York: Oxford UP, 1995. 1260-62.
"Harlem Disorders Bring Quick Action by City and Army." New York Times 2 Aug. 1943: 1, 16.
Herndon, Angelo. "Frederick Douglass: Negro Leadership and War." Negro Quarterly 1.4 (Winter/ Spring 1942-1943): 303-29.
Hobson, Christopher Z. "Richard Wright's Communisms: Textual Variance, Intentionality, and Socialization in American Hunger, 'I Tried to Be a Communist,' and The God That Failed." Text 6 (1994): 307-44.
Howe, Irving. "Black Boys and Native Sons." Dissent 10.4 (Autumn 1963): 353-68.
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Isserman, Maurice. Which Side Were You On? The American Communist Party During the Second World War. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 1982.
Jackson, Lawrence. Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius. New York: Wiley, 2002.
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