In the canon
The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
James Weldon Johnson
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1912
- Pages
- Pages 200
A principal steps into a schoolroom and asks the white scholars to stand. The boy rises with the rest, is told to sit down, and goes home to study his own face in the glass: the ivory skin, the dark eyes, the hair he had never thought about.
I know that in writing the following pages I am divulging the great secret of my life
The blurb, the gist, the why of the day and the work itself are in the app. The first button needs it on this device; the second gets it there.