The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man - James Weldon Johnson - Libros -  - 9798669908621 - 1 de noviembre de 2020
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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

Book Excerpt: ...egan to snicker. His helpless condition went straight to my heart, and gripped my sympathies. I felt that if he failed, it would in some way be my failure. I raised my hand, and, under cover of the excitement and the teacher's attempts to regain order, I hurriedly shot up into his ear twice, quite distinctly: "F-o-u-r-t-h, f-o-u-r-t-h." The teacher tapped on her desk and said: "Third and last chance." The hands came down, the silence became oppressive. "Red Head" began: "F--" Since that day I have waited anxiously for many a turn of the wheel of fortune, but never under greater tension than when I watched for the order in which those letters would fall from "Red's" lips--"o-u-r-t-h." A sigh of relief and disappointment went up from the class. Afterwards, through all our school days, "Red Head" shared my wit and quickness and I benefited by his strength and dogged faithfulness. There were some black and brown boys and girls in the school, and several of them were in my class. One of the boys strongly at...

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Publicado 1 de noviembre de 2020
ISBN13 9798669908621
Páginas 112
Dimensiones 152 × 229 × 7 mm   ·   176 g
Lengua Inglés  

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