Author:James Weldon Johnson
American author and civil rights activist; leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance
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James Weldon Johnson
WorksEdit
PoetryEdit
- Collections
- Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917) (transcription project)
- God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (1927) (external scan)
- Individual poems
- "Untitled" in Negro Poets and Their Poems (1923)
- In The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922), edited by James Weldon Johnson
NovelsEdit
- The Autobiography of an Ex-colored Man (1912) (transcription project)
Non-fictionEdit
- The book of American Negro spirituals (transcription project)
- The Second Book of Negro Spirituals (1926, editor)
- Native African Races and Culture (1927) (external scan)
- Black Manhattan (1930) – Copyrighted in the United States until 2026 due to (Renewal: R205995 )
As translatorEdit
- "Plácido's Farewell to his Mother" in The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922), edited by James Weldon Johnson
As editorEdit
- The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922) (transcription project)
- The Book of American Negro Poetry, revised edition (1931) – Copyrighted in the United States until 2027 due to (Renewal: R228131 )
Works about JohnsonEdit
- "James Weldon Johnson" in Negro Poets and Their Poems (1923)
Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1928.
The longest-living author of these works died in 1938, so these works are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 84 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
