An amazing human document covering the life story of one of the
great leaders of the modern Negro. Should have an even wider appeal
than - in its day - UP FROM SLAVERY achieved, for the interest in
the Negro problem is certainly growing, and his place in the
literary and musical world is unquestioned. Here is a man who has
taken the lead in the field of education, literature, politics, who
is a poet, a diplomat, and secretary of The National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People. One roads of a childhood in
the South, untroubled by problems of race, of a normal and
enterprising youth at school and college, of teaching in rural
schools, and later in Jacksonville, of breaking into Tin Pan Alley
and Broadway, of adventures and misadventures in the world of art
and music and literature, of a worthy career in the consular
service in South and Central America, and of the uphill fight for
the rights of his race, for the legislation - and its enforcement -
against lynching. It's absorbingly interesting in the tolling, and
a book that should have an extensive sale. (Kirkus Reviews)
Here is, to quote the eminent historian Nathan Irvin Huggins, "one
of the finest American autobiographies written in this century."
Born in 1871 in Jacksonville, Florida, James Weldon Johnson began
his career as a high-school principal. He went on to attain success
as a songwriter on Broadway and as the compiler of the definitive
"Book of American Negro Spirituals," But he achieved one of his
greatest triumphs in 1912, when, under a pseudonym, he published
"The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man"--a classic novel about a
musician who rejects his black roots, a novel that is still in
print today in multiple paperback editions. Johnson went on to be,
from 1920 to 1930, the first African-American head of the NAACP,
fighting tirelessly for the passage of a federal anti-lynching law.
His life story is that of a truly remarkable man who triumphed over
a system of institutionalized racism to become one of black
America's leading educators, men of letters, and reformers.
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