James Weldon Johnson

Born in 1871 in Jacksonville, Florida, James Weldon Johnson was an American poet, novelist, and civil rights activist. He studied at Atlanta University and later at Columbia University. Johnson worked as a teacher, lawyer, and diplomat before becoming a prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance movement of the 1920s.

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Works by James Weldon Johnson

• Lift Ev'Ry Voice and Sing (1900)
• Fifty Years (1935)
• To America (1933)
• O Black and Unknown Bards (1922)
• O Southland! (1913)
• To Horace Bumstead (1935)
• The Color Sergeant (1920)
• The Black Mammy (1930)
• Father, Father Abraham (1933)
• Brothers (1930)
• Fragment (1920)
• The White Witch (1927)
• Mother Night (1966)
• The Young Warrior (1930)
• The Glory of the Day was in her Face (1935)
• Sonnet (1922)
• Plácido's Farewell to his Mother (1933)
• From the Spanish (1935)
• From the German of Uhland (1922)
• Before a Painting (1930)
• I Hear the Stars Still Singing (1935)
• Girl of Fifteen (1916)
• The Suicide (1933)
• Down by the Carib Sea (1935)
• And the Greatest of these is War (1933)
• A Mid-Day Dreamer (1930)
• The Temptress (1930)
• Ghosts of the Old Year (1930)
• The Ghost of Deacon Brown (1930)
• Lazy (1921)
• Omar (1933)
• Deep in the Quiet Wood (1935)
• Voluptas (1913)
• The Word of an Engineer (1930)
• Life (1933)
• Sleep (1922)
• Prayer at Sunrise (1927)
• The Gift to Sing (1927)
• Morning, Noon and Night (1930)
• Her Eyes Twin Pools (1927)