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God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse is a 1927 book of poems by James Weldon Johnson patterned after traditional African-American religiou...

The book "" The Book of American Negro Poetry, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten...

The Book of American Negro Poetry By James Weldon JohnsonProduct DetailsISBN-13: 9781986308670 Media Type: Paperback Publication Date: 03-10-2018 P...

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is the fictional account of a young biracial man, referred to only as the "Ex-Colored Man," living in post-R...

Recalling the great confessional narratives from St. Augustine to Jean Jacques Rousseau, from Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Douglass to Henry Ada...

2013 Reprint of 1912 Edition. Full facsimile of the original text, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "The Autobiography of an Ex-Co...

Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917) is a collection of poems by James Weldon Johnson. Although less popular than his book God's Trombones: Seven Neg...

The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922) is an anthology by James Weldon Johnson. Alongside some of his own poems, Johnson includes the work of suc...

A gifted musician's decision to navigate society as a white man causes an internal debate about anti-blackness and the explicit nature of intent ve...

A gifted musician's decision to navigate society as a white man causes an internal debate about anti-blackness and the explicit nature of intent ve...

James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man takes place in post Reconstruction era America and follows the story of a young birac...

African-American scholars have cited James Weldon Johnson's 1927 book of poems, "God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse" as one of the autho...

First published anonymously in 1912, "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man" is James Weldon's Johnson fictional account of a young biracial man l...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, margina...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, margina...

This stirring collection of Negro spirituals, edited by the great Negro poet James Weldon Johnson and arranged for voice and piano by his brother J...

A Harlem Renaissance classic: seven inspirational poems inspired by the powerful rhetorical traditions of African-American sermons and spirituals...

Introduced by Maya Angelou, the inspiring sermon-poems of James Weldon Johnson James Weldon Johnson was a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissanc...

In this classic work, first published in 1930, James Weldon Johnson, one of the leading lights of the Harlem Renaissance, combined the skills of ...

Originally published in 1912, this novel was one of the first to present a frank picture of being black in America. Masked in the tradition of th...

A Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of the groundbreaking classic novel of the Black experience in America that is still remarkably relevan...