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James Weldon Johnson

JAMES WELDON JOHNSON (1871–1938) was a novelist, poet, lawyer, editor,  ethnomusicologist, and coauthor of the hymn “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” which is informally known as the Black national anthem. Born in Jacksonville, Florida, he was educated at Atlanta University and at Columbia University and was the first Black lawyer admitted to the Florida bar. He was also, for a time, a songwriter in New York, American consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua, executive secretary of the NAACP, and professor of creative literature at Fisk University. His other books include an autobiography, Along This Way and God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse.
God's Trombones
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson
God's Trombones
Along This Way
Complete Poems
Lift Every Voice and Sing
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man

Books

God's Trombones
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson
God's Trombones
Along This Way
Complete Poems
Lift Every Voice and Sing
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man

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