"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"
Accepting the Award for the Activist
Linda Allen Hollis accepts award for Elise Ford Allen, 2nd great granddaughter of West Ford, son of George Washington, who was honored at the Springfield and Central Illinois African American History Museum Gala on October 25, 2018. (Photo credit Mark Hollis for WFL).
