2000 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Trombones (1927), and Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day (1935)—along with a number of previously unpublished poems.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 and his pioneering contributions to recording and celebrating the African American experience. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Complete Poems (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

Literature & Fiction

James Weldon Johnson

Poetry

Penguin Publishing Group

In this classic work, first published in 1930, James Weldon Johnson, one of the leading lights of the Harlem Renaissance, combined the skills of the historian, social scientist, and the reporter to trace the New York black experience from the earliest settlements on Chatham Square during the pre-revolutionary period to the triumphant achievements of Harlem in the 1920s. But Black Manhattan is by no means simply history; It illuminates Johnson and his contributions to both black literature and black organizations; it provides us with an intimate account of the black theatrical and musical world of which Johnson had been a part; and it raises searching questions about the black people's struggle to find their identity. Black Manhattan remains one of the essential books on the black American experience, losing none of its resonance and value after many decades.

Black Manhattan

History

Americas

Da Capo Press

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Dover Thrift Editions)

Dover Publications

One of the most prominent African-Americans of his time, James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) was a successful lawyer, educator, social reformer, songwriter, and critic. But it was as a poet and novelist that he achieved lasting fame. Among his most famous works, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man in many ways parallels Johnson's own remarkable life. First published in 1912, the novel relates, through an anonymous narrator, events in the life of an American of mixed ethnicity whose exceptional abilities and ambiguous appearance allow him unusual social mobility — from the rural South to the urban North and eventually to Europe. A radical departure from earlier books by black authors, this pioneering work not only probes the psychological aspects of "passing for white" but also examines the American caste and class system. The human drama is powerful and revealing — from the narrator's persistent battles with personal demons to his firsthand observations of a Southern lynching and the mingling of races in New York's bohemian atmosphere at the turn of the century. Revolutionary for its time, the Autobiography remains both an unrivaled example of black expression and a major contribution to American literature.

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Dover Thrift Editions: Black History)

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

The inspiring words and music of "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing", the song hailed as the African-American national anthem, are paired with the dramatic prints of an internationally renowned artist in this "treasure to be read, sung, shared and enjoyed among different generations and people of all races"

Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing

Arts & Photography

Music

Scholastic. Inc.

Lift Ev'Ry Voice and Sing

Written by civil rights leader and poet James Weldon Johnson in 1899,  "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" is sung in schools and churches throughout  America. The popular, timeless song is recognized as a testimonial to  the struggle and achievements of African-American people past,  present, and future.

Lift Ev'ry Voice And Sing

Children's Books

Biographies

Tandem Library

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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

World

Trieste Publishing

Along This Way: The Autobiography Of James Weldon Johnson

Along This Way: The Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson

Reprint Services Corporation

An excerpt from Johnson's book of sermons, "God's Trombones", originally published in 1927 by The Viking Press, Inc.

I'll Make A World: James Weldon Johnson's Story of The Creation (Hallmark Crown Editions)

Hallmark]

Ragtime music and the cakewalk flavors the episodic adventures of the nameless narrator of this classic story which takes place during the gaslight era, as his crisis of racial identity deepens. His adventures carry hi from a precocious childhood in Connecticut to painful yet eye-opening disappointment in Atlanta; on the coming-of-age experiences among colorful Cuban exiles in Florida; then north to the fast seductive and dangerous night life of New York's Tenderloin district from which he barely escapes. Later, in America's south, the awful terror of witnessing a burning at-the-stake lynching draws him across the color-line to the white world and a troubled but secure existence.

The Autobiography of an Ex-colored Man

United States

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