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"The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man" is James Weldon's Johnson fictional account of a light-skinned mulatto who can pass for white. The anonymous narrator is the son of a black mother and a white father living in the early part of the 20th century in the rural south, the urban north and in... read more

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Savannah we boarded a steamer which finally landed us in New York.

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  1. James Weldon Johnson (Author)
 

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