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![]() ![]() ![]() Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, published in 1912, related the life of a character of mixed ancestry who passes for white… The African American tradition in American literature has its paternity more in James Weldon Johnson than in anyone else" (Wilson, Preface to Along this Way). "One of the exceptional figures of the 20th century… he used literature to call attention to the urgent political and social plight of black Americans. ![]() Rare.Ī dedicated civil rights leader, Johnson was at the core of the Harlem Renaissance. $5,000.00 Item Number: 124993įirst edition of the work the central text of the Harlem Renaissance, hailed as the link between 19th and 20th African American narratives. ![]()
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