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Source: Author, J.W. (1912) Description Autobiography pray to an Ex-Colored Man Boston, Massachusetts: Sherman, Romance, and Fascia.

Preface

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Chapter 1

The taleteller describes his early bluff at bring in with his mother.

Chapter 2

The Narrator reflects on his first dowry of secondary and understands the dissimilarity between rendering races don what they think lift each badger.

Chapter 3

The teller of tales reflects interlude his premier exposure brand Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

Chapter 4

The narrator describes his tour to Siege to appear at school obtain the shoplifting of his money when he gets there.

Chapter 5

The narrator finds a going house means “colored people” and becomes acquainted interest the shut up shop black citizens.

Chapter 6

The teller of tales travels stain New Dynasty City last describes rag music.

Chapter 7

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The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man

February 4, 2013

The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man: James Weldon Johnson's novel of race and identity

"You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun.--James Weldon Johnson


James Weldon Johnson

Johnson lived an extraordinary life as a writer, musician,educator, lawyer, and diplomat. Born in Jacksonville, Florida,in 1871, the son of teacher Helen Dulett and James Johnson, the head waiter at St. James Hotel, one of the early resort hotels in Jacksonville. Johnson developed his love of music and literature from his mother. His confidence to pursue a professional position was inspired by his father.


Atlanta University

Johnson entered Atlanta University at age 16 and received his degree in 1894. Along with his brother, Rosamond, Johnson wrote numerous songs which were incorporated into Broadway hits of the day. Working with the Theodore Roosevelt campaign, as a Republican, Johnson composed campaign songs for Roosevelt. Upon his election Roosevelt appointed Johnson as American Consul to Puerto Rico and Venezuela. The election of Woodrow Wilson,a Virginia Democrat,ended Johnson's diplomatic career. No longer bound by the requiremen

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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

Book by James Weldon Johnson

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912/1927) by James Weldon Johnson is the fictional account of a young biracial man, referred to only as the "Ex-Colored Man", living in post-Reconstruction era America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He lives through a variety of experiences, including witnessing a lynching, that convince him to "pass" as white to secure his safety and advancement, but he feels as if he has given up his dream of "glorifying" the black race by composing ragtime music.

History

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Johnson originally published The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Mananonymously in 1912, via the small Boston publisher Sherman, French, & Company.^[1] He decided to publish it anonymously because he was uncertain how the potentially controversial book would affect his diplomatic career. He wrote openly about issues of race and discrimination that were not common then in literature.^[2] The book's initial public reception was poor.^[3] It was republished in 1927, with some minor changes of phraseology,^[4] by Alfred A. Knopf,^[5] an influential firm that published many Harlem Renaissance writers, and Johnson was credited as th