This work recounts an encounter with a man who supports Cuban independence by working as a cigar roller in Jacksonville.  
This work recounts an encounter with a man who supports Cuban independence by working as a cigar roller in Jacksonville.  The protagonist ends up playing Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" at a club that hosts lots of slumming visitors; this is where he meets "my millionaire" and witnesses the murder of a widow who bought him a drink.  Though he grows up in Connecticut, the protagonist attends school in Atlanta, but after seeing a man being burned at the stake decides to leave Georgia for good.  The protagonist later recognizes his childhood friend "Shiny" walking in New York and resolves to tell his new fianc?the truth.  Its author, who would revisit the same theme in 1933's Along this Way, based this work on the life of his friend and law partner Judson D. Wetmore, who succeeded in graduating from Michigan Law by "passing." For 10 points, name this novel about a black man who lives as a white man, a work by James Weldon Johnson.
This work recounts an encounter with a man who supports Cuban independence by working as a cigar roller in Jacksonville.  
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man