@booklet {141, title = {Light Ahead for the Negroes}, year = {1904}, note = {

Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1975; and in Black Sci-Fi Short Stories: An Anthology of New \& Classic Stories (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2021), 335-77.

}, month = {1904}, pages = {vi + 132 pp. }, publisher = {Grafton Press}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Set in 2006 in an improved but still segregated South, which is presented as a much better situation for African-Americans. Very paternalistic attitudes by whites, so much so that there may be an element of satire. Unions opened to Negroes, and, in separate meetings, to women; the unions train the men, and Schools of Domestic Science were opened to professionally train the women. The first part of the work is a description of the situation of the black at the beginning of the twentieth century (21-98). The economy has been partially nationalized. Blacks and whites \“naturally\” associate with their own people. Southern cotton plantations bought, broken up, and re-sold to African-Americans at low prices at which time they are given assistance and training. Technologically advanced with electric cars that run on dedicated elevated tracks. In Adam vs. Ape-Man and Ethiopia. Illus. New York: Ptd. by J. J. Little and Ives Co., 1931, he argues that American Negroes are descended from Ethiopians, which were the first civilization in Africa.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {E[dward] A[ustin] Johnson (1860-1944)} }