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Black History Month

Posted by Mitch Townsend on February 25th, 2006 (All posts by Mitch Townsend)

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I really hate the idea of setting aside a month for one aspect of American history over the others, but let’s make the most of it. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James W. Johnson is a short piece of fiction that is still a little uncomfortable to read today, nearly a century later, but fascinating. The author later became the president of the NAACP.