{"product_id":"the-autobiography-of-an-ex-colored-man-9781528718004","title":"The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man","description":"James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) was an American civil rights activist and writer. He led the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and was the first African-American professor at New York University. As a writer, Johnson was well-known in the Harlem Renaissance for his novels and poems which dealt primarily with black culture. In \"The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man\", Johnson offers a fictional account of a biracial man living in America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who attempts to pass as a white man to ensure his safety and future prospects. Read \u0026amp; Co. Classics is republishing this classic novel now in a new addition complete with the poem \"At the Closed Gate of Justice\" by James D. Corrothers.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Read \u0026 Co. Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50660227186962,"sku":"9781528718004","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-autobiography-of-an-ex-colored-man-9781528718004","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}