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James Weldon Johnson

James Weldon Johnson: Writings (LOA #145)

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man / Along This Way / essays and editorials / selected poems

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James Weldon Johnson's career was one of extraordinary range, spanning the worlds of diplomacy (as U.S. consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua), politics (as Secretary of the NAACP), journalism (as founder of one newspaper and longtime editor of another), musical theater (as lyricist for the Broadway songwriting team of Cole and Johnson Brothers), and literature (as novelist, poet, and anthologist). At the dawning of what would become the modern civil rights movement, he forged a record of accomplishment that defied the odds. The Library of America now presents a collection of his writings that displays the many facets of a complex and impassioned… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-931082-52-5
  • EAN: 9781931082525
  • Produktnummer: 9791384
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
  • Seitenangabe: 828 S.
  • Masse: H21.1 cm x B13.7 cm x D3.0 cm 600 g
  • Gewicht: 600

Über den Autor


James Weldon Johnson was born in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1871. Among the first to break through the barriers segregating his race, he was educated at Atlanta University and at Columbia and was the first black admitted to the Florida bar. He was also, for a time, a songwriter in New York, American consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua, executive secretary of the NAACP, and professor of creative literature at Fisk University-experiences recorded in his autobiography, Along This Way. Other books by him include Saint Peter Relates an Incident, Black Manhattan, and God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse. In addition to his own writing, Johnson was the editor of pioneering anthologies of black American poetry and spirituals. He died in 1938.

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