James Weldon Johnson's career was one of extraordinary range, spanning the worlds of diplomacy (a...

Reproduction of the original: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson

Reproduction of the original: Self-Determining Haiti by James Weldon Johnson

The protagonist of this fictional autobiography wrestles with race in America from the perspectiv...

2000 marks the centenary of 'Lift Every Voice and Sing,' James Weldon Johnson's most famous lyric...

A landmark anthology of forty poets that brought serious attention to writers such as Countee Cul...

'A canonical collection, splendidly and sensitively edited by Rudolph Byrd.”-Henry Louis Gates, J...

This selection of more than forty poems from a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance includes ...

The autobiography of the celebrated African American writer and civil rights activistPublished ...

First published anonymously in 1912, this resolutely unsentimental novel gave many white readers ...

James Weldon Johnson is the editor of The Book of American Negro Poetry. Johnson compiled this wo...

The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man explores the intricacies of racial identity through the e...