Jan 1, 2010

The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man | What Do I Read Next?

Johnson’s most famous and most successful book is God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (1927). The poems in this volume, written in the dialect and rhythm of Southern African American preachers, deal with good and evil in a sinful world.

In 1933, Johnson published Along This Way: The Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson, a reflective and detailed account of his fascinating and varied life. The volume includes nineteen photographs of Weldon and his family and friends.

Wallace Thurman’s novel The Blacker the Berry (1929) was the first...