Along This Way: The Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson (Twentieth Century Classics S.) - Softcover

Johnson, James; Wilson, Sondra

 
9780140184013: Along This Way: The Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson (Twentieth Century Classics S.)

Synopsis

In this autobiography, Johnson provides a window into life as a black man in the United States, describing race relations battles and his own triumph over prejudice. He became a professor at Fisk University, served as consul in Nicaragua and Venezuela and was the first black executive of the NAACP.

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From the Back Cover

This book is an emotionally gripping novel of a landmark in black literary history and, more than eighty years after its original anonymous publication, a classic of American fiction. It's influenced a generation of writers during the Harlem Renaissance and served as eloquent inspiration for Zora Neale. In the 1920s and since, it has also given white readers a startling new perspective on their own culture, revealing to many the double standard of racial identity imposed on black Americans.

About the Author

James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) is recognized alongside W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington as one of the most respected interpreters of the black experience.

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