- American poetry, American sermons, Poetry, African Americans
The inspiring sermon-poems of James Weldon Johnson.
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Grave, character-led, contemplative and earnest.
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
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- First published
- 1927
- Pages
- 56
- Publisher
- G Allen & Unwin, Tandem Library, HighBridge Audio
- Editions
- 30
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780486852218
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James Weldon Johnson (June 17, 1871 – June 26, 1938) was an American writer and civil rights activist. He was married to civil rights activist Grace Nail Johnson. Johnson was a leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), where he started working in 1917. In 1920, he was the first African American to be chosen as executive secretary of the organization, effectively the operating officer. He served in that position from 1920 to 1930. Johnson established his reputation as a writer, and was known during the Harlem Renaissance for his poems, novel, and anthologies collecting both poems and spirituals of black culture. He wrote the lyrics for "Lift Every Voice
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