Along This Way

The Autobiography Of James Weldon Johnson

By: James Weldon Johnson

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Paperback | 14 January 2000 | Edition Number 1

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Here is, to quote the eminent historian Nathan Irvin Huggins, one of the finest American autobiographies written in this century. Born in 1871 in Jacksonville, Florida, James Weldon Johnson began his career as a high-school principal. He went on to attain success as a songwriter on Broadway and as the compiler of the definitive Book of American Negro Spirituals. But he achieved one of his greatest triumphs in 1912, when, under a pseudonym, he published The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Mana classic novel about a musician who rejects his black roots, a novel that is still in print today in multiple paperback editions. Johnson went on to be, from 1920 to 1930, the first African-American head of the NAACP, fighting tirelessly for the passage of a federal anti-lynching law. His life story is that of a truly remarkable man who triumphed over a system of institutionalized racism to become one of black Americas leading educators, men of letters, and reformers.

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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)

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