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Blurb: “UP FROM SLAVERY is the autobiography of a
great American, the fascinating story of Booker
T. Washington. He was born the illegitimate son
of a white man and a Negro slave and his strug-
gle for education became the struggle of all his
people for dignity in an alien society. W. E. B.
DuBois' THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK is one
of the undeniably great American books of our
time, a literary classic that is at once a major so-
ciological document. No other book has had
greater influence on Negro thinking, and nowhere
so passionately is the Negro's unique heritage
and his kinship with all men described. This is the
twenty-seventh edition of a major work. James
Weldon Johnson's AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN
EX-COLORED MAN was published anonymously
in 1912, and has been reprinted in hardcover six
times prior to this edition. It is a remarkable hu-
man document on the life of the American Negro,
a "profound interpretation of his feeling towards
the white man and towards the members of his
own race." It does not seem likely that any other
book will be written that touches with such under-
standing and objectivity on the phenomenon of a
Negro's "passing" in a white society.
INTRODUCTION by JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN”