While in school, the narrator of this novel helped "Red Head" cheat on a spellingtest and was friends with the orator "Shiny". The narrator of this novel gives moneyto men who wore linen dusters on th
While in school, the narrator of this novel helped "Red Head" cheat on a spellingtest and was friends with the orator "Shiny". The narrator of this novel gives moneyto men who wore linen dusters on their feet because they had gambled away theirshoes at a club in New York City. The narrator (+) hides in the closet of a Pullmancar after dropping out of Atlanta University to get to Jacksonville, where he earns a job as a reader in a cigar factory. The narrator plays (*) ragtime renditions of Mendelsohn's Wedding March while touring Europe with a benefactor. The narrator, whose absentee father was described as "the best blood of the South", changes his name and identity after witnessing a lynching. For ten points, name this roman  ́a clef by James Weldon Johnson about a black man who passes as white.
While in school, the narrator of this novel helped "Red Head" cheat on a spellingtest and was friends with the orator "Shiny".
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              