"No, suh, but I knowed you was some white man comin' up de walk. ... Racial injustice is a big part in "The Man Who Was Almost A Man.... His name is not said in the story so most people call him Invisible. Invisible was called to make a speech at a gathering where all of the top people in town were going to be. ... "The Man Who Was Almost A Man" was about an African American boy who was treated as a lesser being than others and with not much respect. ...

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The Henslin reading, "Invisible Man", tells of an African American man who slightly changes his personal criteria from Princeton graduate to a sophomore at Tufts University, and he then goes about applying for a job as a waiter. ... Also surprising to me was the extent of discrimination in the Henslin reading "Invisible Man". ...

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