Along This Way (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
At a glance:
- Author: James Weldon Johnson
- First Published: 1933
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: African Americans, Civil rights, United States or Americans, South or Southerners, Twentieth century, Education or educators, Georgia
The Work
James Weldon Johnson claimed that one of the reasons for publishing his autobiography, Along This Way, was to finally make clear that his novel The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man (1912) was not a record of his life. A public figure as important as Johnson hardly needed, however, a justification for adding another book to the growing shelf of autobiographies of distinguished African Americans, such as Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and W. E. B. Du Bois. In a controlled and often ironic narrative tone, Johnson not only provides insights into...
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