King of the Bingo game

Ralph Waldo Ellison was born March 1,1914 in Oklahoma City, his parents named him after the American poet and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson. From the time he was a young boy, he wanted to be a musician. Throughout his earlier days, he performed different odd jobs in exchange for trumpet lessons and worked as an elevator operator for two years to save tuition money. Due to the fact that he was unable to afford a train ticket after being awarded a music scholarship to Tuskegee Institute, he hopped trains from Oklahoma City to Alabama. At the end of his third year at Tuskegee, Ellison left Alabama for Harlem where he tried unsuccessfully to find work to pay his senior year’s tuition. It was here that he befriended Richard Wright who became a major influence...