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James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)

Author of The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man

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Works by James Weldon Johnson

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The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man 770 copies, 10 reviews
Three Negro Classics 250 copies, 1 review
God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (Penguin Twentieth-Century… 188 copies, 2 reviews
Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing 162 copies, 1 review
James Weldon Johnson: Writings 103 copies
The Creation 74 copies, 7 reviews
The Book of American Negro Poetry: Revised Edition 54 copies
Along This Way: The Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson 43 copies
Black Manhattan 36 copies, 1 review
Mindhopper (Daw Book Collectors, No. 738) 34 copies
The Autobiography of an Ex-colored Man and other Writings 29 copies, 1 review
The Books of the American Negro Spirituals 26 copies
Complete Poems (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) 21 copies
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man [Norton Critical Edition] 17 copies

Saint Peter Relates an Incident: Selected Poems (20th Century Classics) 16 copies

The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson (Modern Library Classics) 12 copies

"I'll make me a world"; James Weldon Johnson's story of the creation 5 copies

Negro Americans, What Now? 4 copies

The Second Book of Negro Spirituals 3 copies

Fifty Years and Other Poems 2 copies, 1 review

The Book of American Negro Spirituals 2 copies

The Book of American Negro Spirituals. Edited With an Introduction By… 2 copies

Pieces of a Man (Black Classics) 2 copies

Negro American, What Now? 1 copy

Self-Determining Haiti Four articles reprinted from The Nation embodying a… 1 copy

Along This Way: The Autobiography 1 copy

God's trombones : a trilogy of African-American poems 1 copy

The selected writings of James Weldon Johnson 1 copy

Writings 1 copy

God's trombones and poems on various subjects 1 copy

Lift ev''ry voice and sing; illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist. 1 copy

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Writing New York {Original Edition} (Contributor) 188 copies, 2 reviews
The New Negro : Voices of the Harlem Renaissance (Contributor) 169 copies, 1 review
Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology (Contributor) 163 copies
African-American Classics: Graphic Classics Volume 22 (Author, some editions) 12 copies, 1 review

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Johnson, James William (birth name)

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Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York, USA (Plot: Section 193 ∙ [2733])

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Jacksonville, Florida, USA

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Jacksonville, Florida, USA

Atlanta, Georgia, USA (education)

New York, New York, USA (1899)

Wiscasset, Maine, USA (died in accident on vacation)

Education

Atlanta University (1894)

Occupations

U.S. Consul of Puerto Cabello, Venezuela (1906)

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Stanton College Preparatory School, Jacksonville, Florida, USA (Principal ∙ 1906)

Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA (Professor of creative writing and literature)

NAACP (National Field Secretary ∙ 1916)

NAACP (General Secretary ∙ 1920-1927)

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125 Great Southern Books

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Harlem, New York, New York, USA

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