His name was Ralph Ellison.
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William Hill Brown's The Power of Sympathy: or, The Triumph of Nature (1789) is an 18th-century American sentimental novel written in epistolary form that is widely considered to be the first American novel.
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The discipline of African-American Studies formally began in universities in the 1960s. Some writers, such as Joel Augustus Rogers, wrote about the subject before then.
Ida B. Wells was a journalist who wrote about unequal education opportunities available to African American children. She also drew attention to lynching of African Americans. She wrote directly against discrimination.