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

Johnson, James Weldon

ISBN 10: 0140184015 / ISBN 13: 9780140184013

Published by Penguin Classics, 1990

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Along This Way: The Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson (Twentieth Century Classics)
• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140184015
• ISBN 13: 9780140184013
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Acceptable

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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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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.