The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison by Ralph Ellison

Author:Ralph Ellison [Ellison, Ralph]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-79702-5
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2011-06-01T00:00:00+00:00

*In July 1838 Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered his “Divinity School Address” at the Harvard Divinity School. The ensuing outcry among the faculty and Boston clergy over “infidelity,” “pantheism,” and “atheism” led to a ban on speaking engagements for Emerson at Harvard which lasted nearly thirty years.

HAVERFORD STATEMENT

Ellison made this statement using his “situation as a Negro American” to explain his “personal affirmation of integration without the surrender of our unique identity as a people” and his belief that “the only way to be an effective Negro intellectual is by being a most perceptive and responsible American intellectual.” His comment followed discussions in Haverford, Pennsylvania, May 30-31, 1969. It appears in print here for the first time.

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