Guest Posted March 3, 2009 Report Share Posted March 3, 2009 Alone, wandering, But not without aim. Hidden in plain sight, Same features, same name. Riding the beast, Through the heat and the hate. Through these eyes, a glimpse, Of the other man's fate. Truth and revelation, In the end of the Dream. The work I have wrought, And my name you must glean. Enjoy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 (edited) From the latest clues, I gather my last guess was wrong. Rosa Parks Edit: Nevermind. I missed what Mickey's guess was. Still thinking. Edited March 5, 2009 by darthdaddy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 First; great puzzle. It's led my mind to quite a few different conclusions. Your latest clues have scrambled my brain a bit, but that's the sign of a good riddle. R.F. Kennedy? The clues about the other man's fate (his brother John was assassinated 4 years before he was), and the same features same name clues wouldn't get out my head when I was trying to think of the answer. Similarly, he is popularly viewed as a martyr for the Civil Rights movement, however the majority of those who believe this are unaware of his efforts with the FBI to spy on MLK Jr., which leads to me back to the messiah/pariah clue. I'm likely reading too much into your clues, but figured it was worth a shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 First; great puzzle. It's led my mind to quite a few different conclusions. Your latest clues have scrambled my brain a bit, but that's the sign of a good riddle. R.F. Kennedy? The clues about the other man's fate (his brother John was assassinated 4 years before he was), and the same features same name clues wouldn't get out my head when I was trying to think of the answer. Similarly, he is popularly viewed as a martyr for the Civil Rights movement, however the majority of those who believe this are unaware of his efforts with the FBI to spy on MLK Jr., which leads to me back to the messiah/pariah clue. I'm likely reading too much into your clues, but figured it was worth a shot. Too much or not enough, either way this one is incorrect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Maya Angelou, "I know why the caged bird sings" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Maya Angelou, "I know why the caged bird sings" Nope. Love her stuff though. Especially when she performs it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Ok, looking up autobiographies of civil rights activists. I think I am now outside my realm of education, so some of these may not be a great fit. How about Marshall Thurgood? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Fannie Lou Hamer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 This all sounds sort of Atticus Finch-ish to me... Or are we looking for an actual person? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Jo Ann Robinson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Micky: no, no, no, and no. I was wondering if you were going to find this. Interesting guess, but no. We are indeed looking for an actual person. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 (edited) Micky: no, no, no, and no. I was wondering if you were going to find this. Interesting guess, but no. We are indeed looking for an actual person. Am I barking up the wrong tree? I can't think of what else would involve: civil rights/race, buses, region, in the deep south! Oh yeah, how about Emmett Till? Edit: Or Corretta Scott King? Edited March 5, 2009 by Mickey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Am I barking up the wrong tree? I can't think of what else would involve: civil rights/race, buses, region, in the deep south! Oh yeah, how about Emmett Till? Edit: Or Corretta Scott King? Keep barking. Right tree, wrong branches. I doubt many in the current generation would have any prior knowledge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Keep barking. Right tree, wrong branches. I doubt many in the current generation would have any prior knowledge. Edgar Nixon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Edgar Nixon Definitely not the writer we're looking for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Langston Hughes? Or the playwright, August Wilson? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Two more guesses... Alex Haley? Muhammad Ali/Cassius Clay? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 i read up on some civil rights era poetry. Paul Lawrence Dunbar's poem "We wear the mask" seems to fit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Langston Hughes? Or the playwright, August Wilson? The title of the work was taken from a Hughes poem actually. That should lead us somewhere, perhaps? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 The title of the work was taken from a Hughes poem actually. That should lead us somewhere, perhaps? Oh boy. A Raisin in the Sun? Maybe Sidney Poitier or Lorraine Hansberry? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Oh boy. A Raisin in the Sun? Maybe Sidney Poitier or Lorraine Hansberry? Perhaps W.E.B. Du Bois and any one of his autobiographies? Still looking though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Keep looking folks. We're eliminating possibilities quickly. I'm thinking about unloading a whopper of a hint this evening, if necessarry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man? I'm glad your wife got to play along Unfortunately, still wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Spoiler for One of my least favorite authors...?: Richard Wright? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Alone, wandering,
But not without aim.
Hidden in plain sight,
Same features, same name.
Riding the beast,
Through the heat and the hate.
Through these eyes, a glimpse,
Of the other man's fate.
Truth and revelation,
In the end of the Dream.
The work I have wrought,
And my name you must glean.
Enjoy.
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