Knowledge so that he will be able to compose a uniquely American Inevitably, he is drawn back to America and to music. Has heard him play enters into an exclusive agreement to have Music and shooting craps, excelling at the one & nearing When the factory closes, he heads North again, this time to New Room before he can register & he ends up with a job in a His stake is stolen from his boarding house
Out Harvard for financial reasons & headsīack down South to attend Atlanta University. Piano, but the child is unable to approach and deal with him.Īs a young man, the death of his mother & sale of their houseĭetermines to attend college. Later comes to visit, and even buys him a He confronts his fair skinned motherĪnd his father is a white Southern gentleman. Sent North with his Mother to be raised in Connecticut.īut, he is stunned when one day in school a teacher asks the Novel The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man.
James Weldon Johnson wrote one of the first novels to probe Perhaps best known for writing the Black National Anthem, Lift
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