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Two Black Men’s Lives Take Different Turns

African American Experience The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man — James Weldon Johnson Sherman, French & Co, 1912 It was Johnson’s argument in this novel (which is not strictly an autobiography, although it certainly draws on experiences that Johnson must have had growing up in both the post-Civil War South and North) that the BlackContinue reading “Two Black Men’s Lives Take Different Turns”