8 edition of James Weldon Johnson found in the catalog.
James Weldon Johnson
Pat McKissack
Published
1990
by Childrens Press in Chicago
.
Written in English
Recounts the life of the author and civil rights leader who blazed a trail for racial equality and human rights through his songs, poems, speeches, and other writings.
Edition Notes
Includes index.
| Statement | by Patricia and Fredrick McKissack ; consulting editor, Sondra K. Wilson. |
| Genre | Juvenile literature., Biography, Biography. |
| Series | Picture-story biographies |
| Contributions | McKissack, Fredrick., Wilson, Sondra K. |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | PS3519.O2625 Z78 1990 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | 31 p. : |
| Number of Pages | 31 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL2227062M |
| ISBN 10 | 0516041746 |
| LC Control Number | 89077273 |
| OCLC/WorldCa | 20934021 |
About James Weldon Johnson Born in Jacksonville, Florida, in , James Weldon Johnson’s life was defined by a number of firsts Educated at Atlanta University, he was the first African American to pass the bar in Florida during his tenure as principal of Stanton Elementary School, his alma mater. James Weldon Johnson's Critical Perspective IN , Sterling Brown said of James Weldon Johnson that "As a critic, he has been par excellence an introducer, an intermediary, an inter-preter."' Since then, Johnson the critic has either been completely ig-nored, condescendingly acknowledged or .
The correspondence of James Weldon Johnson and Walter White documents the early history of the N.A.A.C.P. Also present are music manuscripts by W.C. Handy and Thomas “Fats” Waller, among others. The collection was established by Carl Van Vechten to honor the remarkable life of his good friend, the author, professor, lawyer, diplomat, poet. Edited by William L. Andrews “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man established James Weldon Johnson as the first truly modern black American novelist, while his Along This Way, published two decades later (in ), recounted his rich life as a diplomat, journalist, songwriter, and secretary to the collection of his writings, which includes both of those longer works plus.
God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse is a book of poems by James Weldon Johnson patterned after traditional African-American religious oratory. African-American scholars Henry Louis Gates and Cornel West have identified the collection as one of Johnson's two most notable works, the other being Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man. “The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays”, p, Oxford University Press on Demand 11 Copy quote Nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the best he gives to the world he gathers from the hearts of the people.
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Set in the Deep South, The Creation alternates breathtaking scenes from Genesis with images of a country preacher under a tree retelling the story for children/5(19). "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man" (), James Weldon Johnson's first book and the first modernist novel written by an African American, is a groundbreaking and subtle account of racial passing, initially published as an anonymous memoir/5.
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One of my favourite poets, James Weldon Johnson, edited this anthology of African-American poetry, which was published in I was impressed by this collection and the vision that James Weldon Johnson had in compiling it; he desired African-Americans to be proud of their heritage, and he realized that one way for this to happen is to introduce the world to their poetry/5.
(Editor) The Book of American Negro Poetry, Harcourt,revised edition (publisher unknown), (Editor) The Book of American Negro Spirituals, Viking, (Editor) The Second Book of Negro Spirituals Viking, God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (poetry), illustrations by Aaron Douglas, Viking,Penguin, James Weldon Johnson was the first black-American author to treat Harlem and Atlanta as subjects in fiction, in his novel The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man.
Did You Know?Born: 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 Brand: Library of America.
In this classic work, first published inJames Weldon Johnson, one of the leading lights of the Harlem Renaissance, combined the skills of the historian, social scientist, and the reporter to trace the New York black experience from the earliest settlements on Chatham Square during the pre-revolutionary period to the triumphant achievements of Harlem in the s.5/5(2).
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His multifaceted career, which also included stints as a diplomat in Latin America and a successful Tin Pan Alley songwriter, testified to his intellectual breadth, self.
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(–).The Book of American Negro Poetry. Preface.an Ex-Colored Man, novel by James Weldon Johnson, published in This fictional autobiography, originally issued anonymously in order to suggest authenticity, explores the intricacies of racial identity through the eventful life of its mixed-race (and unnamed) narrator.
