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(5 pp) Much has been said about Juneteenth by
Ralph Ellison and edited by John F. Callahan
(1998). Particularly since the original work,
was never finished by Ellison, and Junetenth is
what Callahan was able to craft from scraps, pieces
and drafts left in drawers and boxes, after
Ellison's death.
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JUNETEENTH by RALPH ELLISON Written by B. Bryan Babcock for the Paperstore, Inc., February 2001 Introduction Much
has been said about Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison and edited by John F. Callahan (1998). Particularly since the original work, was never finished by Ellison, and Junetenth is
what Callahan was able to craft from scraps, pieces and drafts left in drawers and boxes, after Ellisons death. The Story Senator Adam Sunraider, a white supremacist, has been wounded
while addressing his colleagues on the Senate floor. After he has been rushed to the hospital he sends for Reverend Alonzo "Daddy" Hickman. The story evolves as
we hear of the variances of their life-long relationship. Alonzo Hickman A black jazzman turned evangelist, also known as "Gods Golden-voiced Hickman, and better known as GODS TROMBONE," is
one of the major characters of this work. Hickman is a large-hearted man who assists in the labor and delivery of a white woman who has falsely claimed that
Hickmans brother raped her. (The brother is lynched; the mother dies of a broken heart.) After the child is delivered, the woman runs off and leaves the baby with Hickman.
"Ill call him Bliss," in musing about his parentage and his light complexion, Hickman says of the infant, "because they say thats what ignorance is." We can see from
this introductory scene alone, that Hickman was a compassionate man, as well as one, with more than a touch of humor. Hickmans Baptist congregation help raise the boy and
he quickly learns from Hickman the glib tongue of the preacher. Even going so far as to raise out of small coffin and deliver the entire sermon upon the right
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