Authors:James Weldon Johnson, J. Rosamund Johnson, Lawrence
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: spirituals, negro, american, book
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2006-07-09
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1428634290
ISBN-13: 9781428634299

Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

Authors:James Weldon Johnson, J. Rosamond Johnson,
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Keywords: spirituals, negro, american, books
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2002-12-03
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0306812029
ISBN-13: 9780306812026

In two elegant and masterly prefaces, James Weldon Johnson discusses the origin and history of more than 120 of the most significant spirituals known. Favorites like "Swing Low Sweet Chariot," "Deep River," and "Go Down, Moses" are arranged for voice and piano by his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, and considered within their African tradition.

Author: James Weldon Johnson
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: classic, century, penguin, poems, selected, voice, sing, lift
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2000-02-01
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 014118387X
ISBN-13: 9780141183879

This selection of more than forty poems from a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance includes both uncompromising indictments of racial injustice and celebrations of the triumphs of African-Americans. With a Preface by Sondra Kathryn Wilson"[Johnson’s poetry] is an exhortation to loose the bonds of dreary second-class citizenship and humiliating segregation and devastating racism. The lyrics bid the reader to be free, to walk with gratitude over ground red with the blood of our ancestors; encourages us to be free to bid the day good morning with hopeful heart, to adore the Creator wit

Author: James Weldon Johnson
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: penguin, classics, johnson, weldon, autobiography, james, way
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2008-01-29
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0143105175
ISBN-13: 9780143105176

The autobiography of the celebrated African American writer and civil rights activist Published just four years before his death in 1938, James Weldon Johnson’s autobiography is a fascinating portrait of an African American who broke the racial divide at a time when the Harlem Renaissance had not yet begun to usher in the civil rights movement. Not only an educator, lawyer, and diplomat, Johnson was also one of the most revered leaders of his time, going on to serve as the first black president of the NAACP (which had previously been run only by whites), as well as write the groundbreak

Author: James Weldon Johnson
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: classic, century, penguin, verse, sermons, trombones, seven, negro, god
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 1990-02-01
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0140184031
ISBN-13: 9780140184037

This collection of poems attempts to recreate a vanishing part of Black American spiritual culture - the inspirational sermons of old-time Negro preachers. Using punctuation and line arrangements he captures the fervour of the congregation and underlines the importance of these sermons in the development of Black culture. James Wheldon Johnson is the author of "Along this Way" and "The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man".

Authors:James Weldon Johnson, Sondra Kathryn Wilson,
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: century, classics, twentieth, penguin, poems, complete
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2000-10-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0141185457
ISBN-13: 9780141185453

This year 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. In celebration, this Penguin original collects all the poems from Johnson’s published works--Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917), God’s Trombones (1927), and Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day (1935)--along with a number of previously unpublished poems. Sondra Kathryn Wilson, the foremost authority on Johnson and his work, provides an introduction that sheds light on Johnson’s many achievements an

Authors:James Weldon Johnson, James E. Ransome,
Publisher: Holiday House
Keywords: creation
Number of Pages: 1
Published: 1994-03
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0823410692
ISBN-13: 9780823410699

A poem based on the story of creation from the first book of the Bible.