Get Lit with All Of It: Allyson Hobbs on the History of Racial Passing in American Life

James Weldon Johnson, author of the 'Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man.'
( James Weldon Johnson, half-length portrait at desk with telephone (1900) Courtesy of Library of Congress. )
( James Weldon Johnson, half-length portrait at desk with telephone (1900) Courtesy of Library of Congress. )