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Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Ralph Ellison

 * Article Evaluation
 * This is a level-5 vital article and on the WikiProject pages for African diaspora, biography, and a couple of states. Although what's here is pretty good, it's still a C-class article, so there is room for improvement. I was first alerted to the absence of Ellison's story "Battle Royal" by the top comment on the Talk page. I then noticed that there is missing info about his Depression-era work with the WPA/FWP. These feel like gaps that I can research to fill. I pretty sure I'll find verifiable sources. My main concern is that, if I keep my contributions to an appropriate length for the article, I might not make it to 500 words.
 * Sources
 * Ellison, Ralph. “Battle Royal: A Story.”  Magazine of the Year. Vol. 2, no. 1 (Jan. 1948).
 * ---.  “Commencement Address at the College of William and Mary (1972).” Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison.  New York: Modern Library, 1995.
 * ---.  “Introduction.”  Invisible Man.  2nd Vintage International ed.  New York: Vintage International, 1995.  vii-xxiii.
 * ---.  Living with Music: Ralph Ellison’s Jazz Writings.  Ed. Robert G. O’Meally.  New York: Modern Library, 2001.
 * Graham, Maryemma and Amritjit Singh.  Conversations with Ralph Ellison.  Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1995.
 * Grandison, Kenrick Ian.  “Negotiated Space: The Black College Campus as a Cultural Record of Postbellum America.”  American Quarterly.  51:3 (Sept. 99).  533.
 * https://www.loc.gov/collections/federal-writers-project/about-this-collection/
 * https://www.loc.gov/collections/federal-writers-project/about-this-collection/



Federal Writers' Project

 * Article Evaluation
 * This is a Start class article that is part of several Wikiprojects, including the African diaspora and United States History and Government projects. I can see right away that a couple of the texts the the FWP produced that are pretty notable aren't even mentioned here, so I'm guessing that there are sections I can add on _New England Hurricane_ and _These Are Our Lives_, at least. I also think some detail could be added to the lists of authors and that particular events mentioned in the "Controversies" section could be better contextualized and linked to the particular texts.


 * Sources
 * https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-6429/
 * https://libraries.mit.edu/150books/2011/03/24/1937/
 * Bold, Christine. Writers, Plumbers, and Anarchists. University of Massachusetts Press, 2006.

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