James Weldon Johnson

• Jun-1933
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The Norton Critical Edition of this influential Harlem Renaissance novel includes related materials available in no other edition.

• Feb-1968
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• May-1969
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"Introduced by Maya Angelou, the inspiring sermon-poems of James Weldon Johnson 

James Weldon Johnson was a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and one of the most revered African Americans of all time, whose life demonstrated the f...

• Mar-1981
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• Mar-1988
• / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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• Feb-1999
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UP FROM SLAVERY

The autobiography of Booker T Washington is a startling portrait ofone of the great Americans of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The illegitimate son of 'a white man and a Negro slave, Washington, a man who strug...

• Dec-2003
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• Jan-2004
• / Historical
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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 of one newspaper and longtime editor of another...

• Apr-2010
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"The Auto-biography of an Ex-colored Man," by James Weldon Johnson, is the tragic fictional story of an unnamed narrator who tells the story of his coming-of-age at the beginning of the 20th century. Light-skinned enough to pass for white but emotion...

• Dec-2013
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TO know the reasons for the present political situation in Haiti, to understand why the United States landed and has for five years maintained military forces in that country, why some three thousand Haitian men, women, and children have been shot do...

• Dec-2014
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" ...]fear, And for our foes let this suffice- We've bought a rightful sonship here, And we have more than paid the price. And yet, my brothers, well I know The tethered feet, the pinioned wings, The spirit bowed beneath the blow, The heart grown fai...

• Oct-2018
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An award-winning retelling of the Biblical creation story from a star of the Harlem Renaissance and an acclaimed illustratorJames Weldon Johnson, author of the civil rights anthem "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing," wrote this beautiful Bible-learning sto...

• Jan-2019
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A moving history of the African-American struggle for equality, "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" was written for schoolchildren to sing at an Abraham Lincoln birthday celebration in 1900 and was named the official African-American anthem in 1...

• May-2021
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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson is a powerful and groundbreaking literary work that delves into the complexities of racial identity in America during the early 20th century. Originally published in 1912, this novel is a...

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Of the hundred millions who make up the population of the United States ten millions come from a stock ethnically alien to the other ninety millions. They are not descended from ancestors who came here voluntarily, in the spirit of adventure to bette...