The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man : With an Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr
by Johnson, James Weldon
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James Weldon Johnson was born in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1871. Among the first to break through the barriers segregating his race, he was educated at Atlanta University and at Columbia and was the first black admitted to the Florida bar. He was also, for a time, a songwriter in New York, American consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua, executive secretary of the NAACP, and professor of creative literature at Fisk Universityexperiences recorded in his autobiography, Along This Way . Other books by him include Saint Peter Relates an Incident , Black Manhattan , and God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse. In addition to his own writing, Johnson was the editor of pioneering anthologies of black American poetry and spirituals. He died in 1938. William L. Andrews is E. Maynard Adams Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of To Tell a Free Story and editor or coeditor of more than thirty books on African American literature.
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- Better World Books (US)
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- Title
- The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man : With an Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr
- Author
- Johnson, James Weldon
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
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- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0679727531
- ISBN 13
- 9780679727538
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1989-12-17
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