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Don Cusic
As a songwriter, James Weldon Johnson is best known for Life Every Voice, which he wrote with his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson. However, during the early 1900s he was part…
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James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson transforms seven inspiring spiritual sermons of African American preachers into poetry and equates the Black oral tradition with the sweeping tonal ranges of the trombone, which most…
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A compellingly powerful novel about racial relations that is as relevant now as it was one hundred years ago.
This unique one-volume collection contains writings by one of the 20th century’s most gifted and effective African-American intellectual-activists. It includes two short never-before-published plays along with Johnson’s complete novel Autobiography…
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The extraordinary life story of the famed black writer, poet, and Harlem activist, told in his own words.
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for James Weldon Johnson’s The Creation, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
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Raymond D Maxwell
This collection contains a sonnet crown, a remix of James Weldon Johnson’s God’s Trombones, using descriptions from Aaron Douglas illustrations.
New Perspectives contains fresh essays that analyze James Weldon Johnson’s iconic book’s reverberations, the contexts within which it was created and received, the aesthetic and intellectual developments of its author…
James Weldon Johnson exemplified the ideal of the American public intellectual as a writer, educator, songwriter, diplomat, and first African American executive of the NAACP. Johnson’s novel The Autobiography of…
A Study Guide for James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author…
Johnson, the first black executive of the NAACP and an active civil-rights campaigner, provides an autobiographical account of living as a white man, although by heritage and experience he is…
The Book of American Negro Poetry Chosen and Edited with an Essay on the Negro's Creative Genius By James Weldon Johnson There is, perhaps, a better excuse for giving an…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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A fictional account of a biracial man living in America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who attempts to pass as a white man to ensure his safety…
A cornerstone hymn chronicling the black experience, Lift Every Voice and Sing was declared the official African American National Anthem by the NAACP in 1919. First published in 1993, this…
A young biracial man witnesses a lynching, that convinces him to pass as white to secure his safety and advancement, but he feels as if he has given up his…
James Weldon Johnson’s landmark novel is an emotionally gripping and poignant look into race relations. The protagonist, a half-white half-black man of very light complexion, known only as an ex-colored…
First published anonymously in 1912 – Back cover.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…
Self-Determining Haiti, Four articles reprinted from The Nation embodying a report of an investigation made for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People., a classical book, has been…
A collection of poems by James Weldon Johnson who was was a leading American author, poet, early civil rights activist and a prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance. He is…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
The Norton Critical Edition of this influential Harlem Renaissance novel includes related materials available in no other edition.
Originally published: New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1922.
God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse is a 1927 book of poems by James Weldon Johnson patterned after traditional African-American religious oratory. African-American scholars Henry Louis Gates and Cornel…
The attitudes and experiences of a distinguished Black American, first published in 1912.
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This selection of more than forty poems from a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance includes both uncompromising indictments of racial injustice and celebrations of the triumphs of African-Americans.
James Weldon Johnson’s career was one of extraordinary range, spanning the worlds of diplomacy (as U.S. consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua), politics (as Secretary of the NAACP), journalism (as founder…
African-American writer’s pioneering novel parallels his own life, probes the psychological aspects of passing for white, and examines the American caste and class system. Major contribution to American literature.
First published anonymously in 1912, James Weldon Johnson’s emotionally gripping fictional autobiography of a young biracial man living in America during the turn of the century is a landmark in…
This portfolio of eighty-three photographs provides a stunning celebration of African American achievement in the twentieth century. Carl Van Vechten took these photographs over the course of three decades. Included…
