Light Ahead for the Negro

In 1906, a teacher takes flight in an experimental airship. As his friend attempts to control the unruly machine, a broken instrument sets the dirigible on an uncontrollable ascent. Passing out, he wakes up a century later in a strange new world, a utopian society where anti-Blackness has been eradicated entirely. Light Ahead for the Negro is a novel by Edward A. Johnson.

About the author

Edward A. Johnson (1860-1944) was an African American attorney, novelist, and New York state assemblyman. Born into slavery in Wake County, North Carolina, he gained his freedom as a child at the end of the Civil War and went on to excel at Washington High School and Atlanta University. While working as a school principal in Raleigh, he wrote A School History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1890 (1890), a pioneering textbook on African American history that was adopted by black schools throughout Virginia and North Carolina. In 1891, he obtained a law degree from Shaw University, a historically black university in Raleigh, before working as an assistant U.S. Attorney from 1899 to 1907. During this time, Johnson wrote Light Ahead for the Negro (1904) an influential utopian novel set in the year 2006. Devoted to Republican Party politics, he moved to New York City and became a leader in Harlem, eventually joining the New York State Assembly in 1918. In 1928, despite having gone blind several years earlier, Johnson ran a strong campaign for Congress in the 21st District, eventually losing to Democrat Royal H. Weller.

Product details

• Authors: Edward A Johnson, Edward A. Johnson
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.07.2021
• EAN: 9798888972205
• ISBN: 979-8-88897-220-5
• No. of pages: 72
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Series: Mint Editions; Mint Editions (Black Narrative
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Political, FICTION / Science Fiction / Time Travel, Narrative theme: Politics, Black & Asian Studies, FICTION / African American & Black / General, Afrofuturism / Black Speculative fiction, Relating to African American / Black American people