The narrator plays (*) ragtime renditions of Mendelsohn's Wedding March while touring Europe with a benefactor.
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              