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Along This Way

James Weldon Johnson

Form
Form Autobiography
Year
Year 1933
Pages
Pages 420

Five hundred schoolchildren in Jacksonville sang a hymn their principal had written for Lincoln's birthday. He and his brother, who set it to music, more or less forgot it.

This term, “social equality,” is, at the same time, a most concrete and a most elusive obstacle in the Negro’s way.
Along This Way, James Weldon Johnson

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