Along This Way

An amazing human document covering the life story of one of the great leaders of the modern Negro. Should have an even wider appeal than - in its day - UP FROM SLAVERY achieved, for the interest in the Negro problem is certainly growing, and his place in the literary and musical world is unquestioned. Here is a man who has taken the lead in the field of education, literature, politics, who is a poet, a diplomat, and secretary of The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. One roads of a childhood in the South, untroubled by problems of race, of a normal and enterprising youth at school and college, of teaching in rural schools, and later in Jacksonville, of breaking into Tin Pan Alley and Broadway, of adventures and misadventures in the world of art and music and literature, of a worthy career in the consular service in South and Central America, and of the uphill fight for the rights of his race, for the legislation - and its enforcement - against lynching. It's absorbingly interesting in the tolling, and a book that should have an extensive sale. (Kirkus Reviews)