1. Battle Royal by Ralph Ellison
... recognized as equals. Radical leaders, like Marcus Garvey of the militant Universal Negro Improvement Association, incited blacsk in Harlem with such energy that revealed their discontent and potential for activism. Ralph Ellison illustrates the intensity and violence of such incitements in Invisible Man, when the narrator runs through the streets of Harlem during one of the raucous events, watching angry mobs torch ... buildings, raid stores, and trample people (Chapters 24-25). Ellison also captures the determination among the black population in Chapter 13, when the residents of Harl...