His eulogy for Tod Clifton, who had been selling Sambo dolls, gets the narrator in trouble with the Brotherhood, who had planned for a race riot to be begun by Ras the Exhorter all along.
Taking the benefactor Mr. Norton to a meeting with Jim Trueblood, who has impregnated his own daughter, gets the narrator of this novel expelled from college. Earlier, he and other young men are taunted by men who insist they look at a naked woman with an American flag painted on her body and then are shocked by a current running through a rug on which money is strewn. His eulogy for Tod Clifton, who had been selling Sambo dolls, gets the narrator in trouble with the Brotherhood, who had planned for a race riot to be begun by Ras the Exhorter all along. This occurs in, FTP, what 1953 work which is the only completed novel published in the lifetime of Ralph Ellison?
Taking the benefactor Mr. Norton to a meeting with Jim Trueblood, who has impregnated his own daughter, gets the narrator of this novel expelled from college.
{Invisible Man}