James Weldon Johnson
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James Weldon Johnson (June 17, 1871–June 26, 1938) was an American author, politician, critic, journalist, poet, anthologist, educator, lawyer, songwriter, early civil rights activist, and prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Johnson is best remembered 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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Selected works
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Poetry
- Lift Every Voice and Sing (1899)
- Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917)
- Go Down, Death (1926)
- God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (1927)
- Saint Peter Relates an Incident (1935)
- The Glory of the Day was in Her Face
- Selected Poems (1936)
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Other works and collections
- The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912/1927)
- Self-Determining Haiti (1920)
- The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922)
- The Book of American Negro Spirituals (1925)
- Second Book of Negro Spirituals (1926)
- Black Manhattan (1930)
- Negro Americans, What Now? (1934)
- Along This Way (1933)
- The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson (1995, posthumous collection)
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