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We celebrate African American history with a new Penguin Classics edition of James Weldon Johnson's inspiring autobiography, Along This Way. The story of an extraordinary life, Along This Way follows Johnson's multifaceted career from serving as the first black president of the NAACP to writing the groundbreaking novel The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and the poem that developed into the unofficial black national anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing."

We have more exciting African American titles in store this year. In the meantime, check out other great books from the Penguin Classics library:

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave by Frederick Douglass

Passing by Nella Larsen

The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois

The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader edited by David Levering Lewis