Lift Every Voice and Sing
Selected Poems
$37.50
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
1 February 2000
Summary
This selection of more than forty poems from a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance includes both uncompromising indictments of racial injustice and celebrations of the triumphs of African-Americans.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141183879 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 014118387X |
| Author: | James Weldon Johnson |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 2000 |
| Weight: | 102g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 9mm |
| Series: | Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin |
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About The Author
James Weldon Johnson
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 Universityexperiences 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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