Literary Landmark: Ralph Waldo Ellison Branch of the Metropolitan Library System

Oklahoma City, Okla.

Dedicated: October 2, 2002

Partners: Friends of Libraries in Oklahoma (FOLIO)

On this land the young Ralph Ellison played. This site represents the physical and spiritual center of the Oklahoma City Community that nurtured the boy who would write Invisible Man (1952), one of the most provocative and important novels of the twentieth century.

Resources:

Ralph Ellison Library, Metropolitan Library System (website)

Ralph Waldo Ellison Library (Read the Plaque)