"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids--and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."
- Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man"
Elise Ford Allen, daughter of Dr. Cecil Bruce Ford
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Married to James O. Allen. Daughter of Dr. Cecil Bruce Ford and granddaughter of Major George Ford. Elise became the official family chronicler after the death of her grandfather. The couple had eleven children: Carol, James Jr., Gregory, Linda, Joy, Janet, Norman, Angela, Barbara, Timothy and Matthew. Elise Ford Allen was the first African American woman editor and publisher of a newspaper in the state of Illinois. The Traveler Weekly Newspaper was established in 1966. Her life is detailed in numerous chapters in I Cannot Tell a Lie starting with Chapter 33.
