Along This Way: The Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:James Weldon Johnson, Sondra Kathryn Wilson (Introduction by)Audience:Young AdultPublish date:2008-02-01Pages:448
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Adult Hc/TrISBN-13:9780143105176ISBN-10:143105175UPC:9780143105176Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Cultural & Regional, Literary FiguresSize:7.24 x 5.72 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.6415Product ID:SCD91TZ18N
Along This Way: The Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson
The autobiography of the celebrated African American writer and civil rights activist Published just four years before his death in 1938, James Weldon Johnson's autobiography is a fascinating portrait of an African American who broke the racial divide at a time when the Harlem Renaissance had not yet begun to usher in the civil rights movement. Not only an educator, lawyer, and diplomat, Johnson...
Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Adult Hc/TrISBN-13:9780143105176ISBN-10:143105175UPC:9780143105176Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Cultural & Regional, Literary FiguresSize:7.24 x 5.72 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.6415Product ID:SCD91TZ18N
James Weldon Johnson was born in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1871. Among the first to break through the barriers segregating his race, he was educated at Atlanta University and at Columbia and was the first black admitted to the Florida bar. He was also, for a time, a songwriter in New York, American consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua, executive secretary of the NAACP, and professor of creative...
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
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James Weldon Johnson, Sondra Kathryn Wilson (Introduction by)
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