James Weldon Johnson

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James Weldon Johnson (June 17, 1871 – June 26, 1938) was an American writer and civil rights activist. He was married to civil rights activist Grace Nail Johnson. Johnson was a leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), where he started working in 1917. In 1920, he was the first African American to be chosen as executive secretary of the organization, effectively the operating officer. He served in that position from 1920 to 1930. Johnson established his reputation as a writer, and was known during the Harlem Renaissance for his poems, novel, and anthologies collecting both poems and spirituals of black culture. He wrote the lyrics for "Lift Every Voice and Sing", which later became known as the Negro National Anthem. Johnson was appointed under President Theodore Roosevelt as U.S. consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua for most of the period from 1906 to 1913. In 1934 he was the first African-American professor to be hired at New York University. Later in life, he was a professor of creative literature and writing at Fisk University, a historically black university.

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Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Representative edition published 2023
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Poetry
Representative edition published 2021
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Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing
Representative edition published 2019
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The Creation and Other Poems
Representative edition published 2018
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Fifty years & other poems
Representative edition published 2018
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Poems
Representative edition published 2017
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The Books of American negro spirituals
Representative edition published 2013
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Prentice Hall Literature--Florida--Language and Literacy
Representative edition published 2010
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Book of American Negro Spirituals
Representative edition published 2010
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The Book of American Negro Spirituals
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Complete Poems
Representative edition published 2009
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The essential writings of James Weldon Johnson
Representative edition published 2008
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Along this way
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Prentice Hall Literature [Grade Ten]
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O'Black and Unknown Bards
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James Weldon Johnson
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Writings
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Prentice Hall Literature -- Gold
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The selected writings of James Weldon Johnson
Representative edition published 1995
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The Creation
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Saint Peter Relates an Incident
Representative edition published 1993
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Black Manhattan
Representative edition published 1991
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The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
Representative edition published 1985
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The Book of American Negro Poetry
Representative edition published 1983
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