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James Weldon Johnson

Born

in Jacksonville, Florida, The United States

June 17, 1871

Died

June 26, 1938

Genre

Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction, Poetry

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James Weldon Johnson was an American author, politician, diplomat, critic, journalist, poet, anthologist, educator, lawyer, songwriter, and early civil rights activist. Johnson is remembered best for his writing, which includes novels, poems, and collections of folklore. He was also one of the first African-American professors at New York University. Later in life he was a professor of creative literature and writing at Fisk University.

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	The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man 3.92 avg rating — 10,736 ratings — published 1912 — 381 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse by James Weldon Johnson, Aaron Douglas (Illustrator), C.B. Falls (Illustrations) 4.26 avg rating — 615 ratings — published 1927 — 70 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book of American Negro Poetry by James Weldon Johnson (Editor/Contributor), Paul Laurence Dunbar (Contributor), James Edwin Campbell (Contributor) 4.23 avg rating — 449 ratings — published 1922 — 116 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lift Every Voice and Sing by James Weldon Johnson, Bryan Collier (Illustrations) 4.25 avg rating — 179 ratings — published 1970 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Creation by James Weldon Johnson, James E. Ransome (Illustrator) 3.92 avg rating — 120 ratings — published 1993 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Along This Way: The Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson by James Weldon Johnson, Sondra Kathryn Wilson (Introduction) 3.95 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1933 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Manhattan by James Weldon Johnson, Kathryn Wilson (Illustrator), Sondra Kathryn Wilson (Introduction) 3.96 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1929 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Complete Poems by James Weldon Johnson, Sondra Kathryn Wilson (Editor) 3.84 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2000 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Books of American Negro Spirituals 4.38 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1940 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	James Weldon Johnson: Writings 4.14 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Lift every voice and sing.”
― James Weldon Johnson

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“New York City is the most fatally fascinating thing in America. She sits like a great witch at the gate of the country, showing her alluring white face and hiding her crooked hands and feet under the folds of her wide garments--constantly enticing thousands from far within, and tempting those who come from across the seas to go no farther. And all these become the victims of her caprice. Some she at once crushes beneath her cruel feet; others she condemns to a fate like that of galley slaves; a few she favors and fondles, riding them high on the bubbles of fortune; then with a sudden breath she blows the bubbles out and laughs mockingly as she watches them fall.”
― James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man

tags: america, cities, new-york-city

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“It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.”
― James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man

tags: african-americans, blacks, passing-for-white, race, race-and-racism-in-america, race-relations, racism

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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson

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North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

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