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How It Went Down --> US, Canada, Philippines only
When 16-year-old Tariq Johnson dies from two gunshot wounds, his community is thrown into an uproar. Tariq was black. The shooter, Jack Franklin, is white.
In the aftermath of Tariq's death, everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events line up. Day by day, new twists further obscure the truth. Tariq's friends, family, and community struggle to make sense of the tragedy, and to cope with the hole left behind when a life is cut short. In their own words, they grapple for a way to say with certainty: This is how it went down.
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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
James Weldon Johnson's emotionally gripping novel is a landmark in black literary history and, more than eighty years after its original anonymous publication, a classic of American fiction.
The first fictional memoir ever written by a black, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man influenced a generation of writers during the Harlem Renaissance and served as eloquent inspiration for Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, and Richard Wright. In the 1920s and since, it has also given white readers a startling new perspective on their own culture, revealing to many the double standard of racial identity imposed on black Americans.
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16 Jun: this download is missing 26 min -- 4h 36m vs 5h 02m
17 Jun: you can re-download the book. The original link was missing chapter 3. See these posts for details -- here | here | here -- you have until 23 Jun to do so.
19 Jun: the new download is missing half a paragraph at the end of Ch 5. See these posts for details and the missing text -- here | here
22 Jun: I deleted the old file and downloaded the new one. Then I checked Ch 5 and found that I had the entire chapter and not the truncated version. See this post for details -- here
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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
The end of chapter 5 is truncated on the new download, but it doesn't seem to affect continuity.
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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
I downloaded the ebook from Project Gutenberg, and here is the missing portion at the end of chapter 5:
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Just when I was beginning to look upon Jacksonville as my permanent home and was beginning to plan about marrying the young school teacher, raising a family, and working in a cigar factory the rest of my life, for some reason, which I do not now remember, the factory at which I worked was indefinitely shut down. Some of the men got work in other factories in town; some decided to go to Key West and Tampa, others made up their minds to go to New York for work. All at once a desire like a fever seized me to see the North again and I cast my lot with those bound for New York.
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