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A Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of the groundbreaking classic novel of the Black experience in America that is still remarkably relevant mor...
The Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson
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'Fifty Years and Other Poems' is a timeless collection of African American poetry by James Weldon Johnson, a prominent writer and civil rights activis...
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โA canonical collection, splendidly and sensitively edited by Rudolph Byrd.โ โHenry Louis Gates, Jr. One of the leading voices of the Harlem Res...
Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917) is a collection of poems by James Weldon Johnson. Although less popular than his book God's Trombones: Seven Negro ...
With an Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
First published anonymously in 1912, this resolutely unsentimental novel gave many white readers their first glimpse of the double standard -- and dou...
Seven Negro Sermons in Verse
The inspirational sermons of the old Negro preachers are set down as poetry in this collection -- a classic for more than forty years, frequently dram...
Self-Determining Haiti: James Weldon Johnson's Insightful Study of Haiti's Struggle for Independence
Welcome to the illuminating world of "Self-Determining Haiti" by James Weldon Johnson, a profound exploration of Haiti's struggle for independence and...
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man / Along This Way / Essays and Editorials / Selected Poems
The autobiography of an ex-colored man - Along this wway-New York Age editorials - Selected Essays - Black Manhattan Selected poems....
In this classic work, first published in 1930, James Weldon Johnson, one of the leading lights of the Harlem Renaissance, combined the skills of the h...
Introduction by Gregory Pardlo
These two volumes of writings represent Johnson's experiences as one of black America's premier civil rights statesmen, and leader, participant, and h...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was ...
An illustrated version of the song that has come to be considered the African American national anthem....
Large Print
The Book of American Negro Poetry: Large Print By James Weldon Johnson It is obvious that Ragtime has influenced, and in a large measure, become our p...
2000 marks the centenary of "Lift Every Voice and Sing," James Weldon Johnson's most famous lyric, which is now embraced as the Negro National Anthem....
An award-winning retelling of the Biblical creation story from a star of the Harlem Renaissance and an acclaimed illustrator James Weldon Johnson, aut...
African-American scholars have cited James Weldon Johnson's 1927 book of poems, "God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse" as one of the author's...
Selected Poems
This selection of more than forty poems from a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance includes both uncompromising indictments of racial injustice a...
Chosen and Edited with an Essay on the Negro's Creative Genius
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 e...
(Aberdeen Classics Collection)
Seen my lady home las' night, Jump back, honey, jump back. Hel' huh han' an' sque'z it tight, Jump back, honey, jump back. Hyeahd huh sigh a little si...
This is a new release of the original 1925 edition....
UP FROM SLAVERY The autobiography of Booker T Washington is a startling portrait ofone of the great Americans of the late nineteenth and early twentie...
A Pictorial Tribute to the Negro National Anthem
Black-and-white photographs accompany this version of the song that has come to be considered the African American national anthem....
James Weldon Johnson is the editor of The Book of American Negro Poetry. Johnson compiled this work because it was his belief that a group of people i...
Four articles reprinted from The Nation embodying a report of an investigation made for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Self-Determining Haiti by James Weldon Johnson is an early study focusing on finding means for societal advancement concerning the black people that r...