The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
The thing I wish I had known about this book before I read it? That the narrator is not supposed to be likeable. In fact, the narrator is supposed to evoke anger in the reader more so than any kind of pity.
James Weldon Johnson
(June 17th, 1871 – June 26th, 1938)
James Weldon Johnson was an American civil rights activist, a leader in the NAACP, an appointed US Consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua, the first Black professor at New York University, a creative literature and writing professor at Fisk University, and an author.
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