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What is of moment here is how much in these stories Ellison struggled to find his own voice, not to replicate, say, the voice of Richard Wright, but to use Wrightian elements in an Ellisonian way, as he did in "A Party Down at the Square," a story about a lynching and an airplane crash told from the point of view of a visiting white adolescent.
And ER was talking about the redress of some of the more shameful circumstances of pre-war life: lynching, child labor, total segregation, pervasive poverty.
Only in a few places does Juneteenth attain the narrative velocity of Invisible Man . In a thrilling climax we finally hear the story of how Bliss came to be adopted by Hickman, and how Hickman was transformed from an Oklahoma City ne'er-do-well into a man of God (it hinges on a false accusation of rape, a lynching, and some amateur obstetrics).
The bus was surrounded by a mob that had lynching on its mind until an undercover policeman got off the bus brandishing his pistol.
I believe it was a lynching.