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James Weldon Johnson O Black and Unknown Bards Fifty Years, 1863-1913 The Creation The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face ... Lift Every Voice and Sing O Black and Unknown Bards O black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire? How, in your darkness, did you come to know The power and beauty of the minstrels' lyre? Who first from midst his bonds lifted his eyes? Who first from out the still watch, lone and long, Feeling the ancient faith of prophets rise Within his dark-kept soul, burst into song? Heart of what slave poured out such melody As "Steal away to Jesus"? On its strains His spirit must have nightly floated free Though still about his hands he felt his chains. Who heard great "Jordan roll"? Whose starward eye Saw chariot "swing low"? And who was he That breathed that comforting, melodic sigh, "Nobody knows de trouble I see"? What merely living clod, what captive thing, Could up toward God through all its darkness grope, And find within its deadened heart to sing These songs of sorrow, love and faith, and hope?

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Home Timeline Exhibition For Teachers Resources James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) writer, poet, statesman James Weldon Johnson was a writer, poet and distinguished statesman, born in Jacksonville, Florida, where he and his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, grew up. Their father was head waiter at a resort hotel there and their mother, who had been born in the Bahamas and educated in New York City, was the first black woman to teach in a public school in Florida. Their parents were both talented musically and the family often made music together. James attended Atlanta University and, on graduation, became principal of Stanton Grammar School in Jacksonville. Over the years, he became a figure in the struggle of African Americans for equal rights. He was the executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from 1920 through 1931. In 1900 he and his brother J. Rosamond Johnson wrote a song in celebration to be sung by school children. That song, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," much to their surprise, became the "Negro National Anthem" and is still being sung throughout the country. Johnson contributed articles regularly to i>The Crisis . In 1927, he published the

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James Weldon Johnson June 17, 1871 - June 26, 1938 Timeline 1871 Born in Jacksonville, Florida, June 17 1894 Graduated from Atlanta University 1897 First black admitted to Florida bar 1899 Wrote "Lift Every Voice and Sing" with his brother 1906 US consul, Puerto Cabello, Venuzuela 1909 US consul, Corinto, Nicaragua 1920 Appointed exectutive secretary of NAACP 1921 Wrote first novel: "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man" 1922 Collected poems of black poets in "The Book of American Negro Poetry." 1927 With brother Rosamond, published "God's Trombones" 1930 Became professor at Fisk University 1933 Wrote autobiography, "Along This Way" 1938 Died in automobile accident in Maine Lift Every Voice and Sing [Gberry's] [PIX]

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James Weldon Johnson James Weldon Johnson was born on June 17, 1871 in Jacksonville, Fla. He is best known as being a poet, composer, diplomat, and anthologist of black culture. James was trained in music and other subjects by his mother, a schoolteacher. Johnson graduated from Atlanta University with A.B. in 1894. He later obtained a M.A. in 1904 while studying at Columbia. For several years he was principal of the black high school in Jacksonville, Fla. He read law at the same time, and was admitted to the Florida bar in 1897, and began practicing there. During this period, he and his brother, John Rosamond Johnson (1873-1954), a composer, began writing songs. In 1901 the two went to New York, where they wrote some 200 songs for the Broadway musical stage. In 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt appointed him U.S. consul to Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, and in 1909 he became consul in Corinto, Nicaragua, where he served until 1914. He later taught at Fisk University. Meanwhile, he began writing a novel, Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man (published anonymously, 1912), which attracted little attention until it was reissued under his own name in 1927. From 1916 Johnson was a leader in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, (NAACP). It was during this time period when James became a distinguished member of

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James Weldon Johnson Laura Wheeler Waring Oil on canvas, 1943 National Portrait Gallery The author of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" (often called "the Negro National Anthem"), James Weldon Johnson had a long career as a creative writer, black leader, teacher, lawyer, diplomat, and executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Through his writing he protested racial injustice, encouraged black achievement, and added immeasurably to the wealth of American literary art. A native of Jacksonville, Florida, Johnson attended Atlanta University through graduate school. In 1901 he became the first African American admitted to the Florida Bar, but he did not re-main in Florida very long. Forming a creative partnership with his younger brother Rosamond, a writer of popular music, he began to write lyrics. They moved to New York and found fame as the ragtime songwriting team of Cole and Johnson Brothers. While in New York, Johnson befriended Charles Anderson, a black Republican leader and confidant of Booker T. Washington. In 1906, through this connection, Johnson was appointed United States consul to Venezuela and subsequently to the same post in Nicaragua. During these six years, he wrote and published The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912). He then wrote the column "Views and Reviews" for the black weekly paper the

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Book Reviews and Compare Prices for Johnson James Weldon Home Browse Books Bookstore List Top Selling Books ... Rate Book Stores Search: Title/Author/Keywords/ISBN Authors A-Z Johnson James Weldon Book Review and Price Comparison Pages: Next Top Selling Books for Johnson James Weldon Three Negro Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man AUTHOR: James W. Johnson, Kurtines (Editor), John Hope Franklin (Introduction) ISBN: 0380015811 Publish Date: May 1976 Format: Mass Market Paperback Compare prices for this book The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man AUTHOR: Johnson, James Weldon ISBN: 048628512X Format: Paperback Compare prices for this book James Weldon Johnson: Author AUTHOR: Jane Tobert-Rouchaleau, Nathan I. Huggins (Editor) ISBN: 079100211X Publish Date: December 1991 Format: Paperback Compare prices for this book God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse AUTHOR: James Weldon Johnson, Aaron Douglas (Illustrator), C. B. Falls (Illustrator) ISBN: 0140184031 Publish Date: February 1990 Format: Paperback Compare prices for this book The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man AUTHOR: James Weldon Johnson, William L. Andrews (Editor)

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Printer Friendly Text Version James Weldon Johnson Professor, Writer, Musician, Diplomat Scott # 2371 Issued Feb 2, 1988 in Nashville, Tennessee Designed by Thomas Blackshear James Weldon Johnson was born in Jacksonville, Florida on June 17, 1871. Johnson attended high school and Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia. After graduation he returned to Jacksonville and established a high school for Blacks. He served as the principal of the school and studied law in his spare time. He became the first Black to be admitted to the Florida Bar in 1897. Johnson wrote songs with his brother including Lift every Voice and Sing which later became the Black national anthem. He moved to New York in 1901 to continue his studies. He studied at Columbia University and later returned to Atlanta University for his Masters Degree. He was appointed Consul in Porto Cabrello, Venezuela in 1906 and Consul in Corinto, Nicaragua in 1909. He is best remembered for his novel

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Home Search Browse Links document.write("Contact Us"); Donate Papers American History Art Essays Biographies ... Theater James Weldon Johnson was a writer, diplomat, professor, and editor,who also described himself as a man of letters and a civil rights leader. Even though, he is no longer living, James Weldon Johnson has left much abouthis contributions to African American literature. Johnson was born June 17,1871 in Jacksonville, Florida to James and Helen Louise (Dallied) Johnson. Johnson’s father, James Johnson, was born a freeman and was of mixed ancestry. He was a headwaiter in St. James Hotel. Mr. Johnson taughthis son how to speak Spanish as a young boy. Johnson’s mother, Helen Johnson, was born a free woman in the West Indies. Mrs. Helen was awoman of French and Black ancestry. She was the first black American to teach in the state of Florida. Mrs. Helen also taught her son to play the guitar(Otfinoski 22). Johnson was born the second of three children: John Rosamond, also known as "Rozy," and a sister which died shortly after birth (Logan and Winston, " James Weldon Johnson" 353). He was originally named Johnson "James William Johnson," by his parents, but in 1913, he changed his middle name to Weldon (Kranz, "James Weldon Johnson" 78). Sept 1 Johnson was a well-educated man of his time. During his first few years of school he attended, Stanton, which offered blacks an education up to the eight grade. Stanton was one of the best black schools in Johnson’s hometown. He graduated from Stanton at the age of 16 and went on to attend a secondary school and college at Atlanta University.

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James Weldon Johnson a web guide to James Weldon Johnson from literaryhistory.com main page 20th century outline authors, alphabetical 19th century authors General Articles http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=73 An introduction to James Weldon Johnson from the Academy of American Poets. http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Harlem/text/jwjohnson.html A profile of James Weldon Johnson from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library. http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/jwjohnson.html A list of selected critical works on Johnson from Dr. Paul Reuben's PAL web site. http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/aframlit.htm A timeline for African American literature published from 1746 - 1999, by Roger Blackwell Bailey Ph.D. Harlem Renaissance http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/harlem/contents.html Reprint of the influential Survey Graphic Harlem Number, 1925, which includes articles on the new scene in Harlem by James Weldon Johnson, W.E.B. DuBois, Countee Cullen, poems by Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, and Cullen, and more. A project of the Univ. of Virginia electronic text center. http://www.poets.org/exh/Exhibit.cfm?prmID=7

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14. James Weldon Johnson James Weldon Johnson. Johnson was born in Jacksonville, Fla. on June 17, 1871. Encyclopedia Britiannica profile. James Weldon Johnson commemorative stamp. http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/jwjohnson.htm

James Weldon Johnson Johnson was born in Jacksonville, Fla. on June 17, 1871. He attended Atlanta University, where he wrote over 30 poems while a student. At graduation ceremonies in 1894, Johnson gave the senior address for his graduating class. After Atlanta University, Johnson returned to Jacksonville, Fla., where he became principal of that city's Colored High School. At the same time he studied law, and in 1897 Johnson became the first black admitted to the Florida Bar. After practicing law for a short time, Johnson returned to Atlanta University to obtain a master's degree in 1903. From 1900 to 1906, he and his brother collaborated in composing over 200 songs, including what many consider the black national anthem, " Lift Every Voice and Sing ." In 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt named Johnson U.S. consul to Venezuela, a post he followed that of consul to Nicaragua. In 1917, Johnson obtained a doctorate from Talladega College in Alabama, followed by a doctorate from Howard University in 1923. In 1916, he began working with the NAACP, and in 1920 became the organization's executive secretary. In this role for the next ten years, Johnson was an ardent fighter for federal anti-lynching laws. Throughout this and the two earlier decades, the multi-talented Johnson also wrote poetry and prose, including The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and God's Trombones . In 1930, he became a professor of creative literature at Fisk University. On his birthday in 1938, Johnson was driving to his summer home in Maine. During a thunderstorm, his car was hit by a train at an intersection in Wiscasset, Maine. Johnson died from the injuries on June 26.

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James Weldon Johnson, 1871-1938 originally displayed February-March 1999 Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina based on an exhibit by Jamie S. Hansen hypertext by Jason A. Pierce James Weldon Johnson, from the frontispiece of Along This Way Recently, the Thomas Cooper Library has formed a collection of books and manuscripts by James Weldon Johnson, African-American poet and statesman. In 1997 the library received the personal collection of the distinguished story-teller and librarian Augusta Baker. In 1939, as children's librarian of the 135th Street (Harlem) Branch of the New York Public Library, Baker established the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection, showcasing books that portrayed black children in positive ways. Included in Baker's own collection were materials relating to her association with Johnson. One special treasure was a small group of the poet's manuscripts. These four holograph poems were the seeds of the new James Weldon Johnson Collection at the Cooper Library. Introduction Biography Music Nonfiction ... Return Updated 22 June 1999 by the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections 1999, the

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James Weldon Johnson's Life and Career Herman Beavers Portriat by Weinold Reiss S ongwriter, poet, novelist, journalist, critic, and autobiographer. James Weldon Johnson, much like his contemporary W. E. B. Du Bois, was a man who bridged several historical and literary trends. Born in 1871, during the optimism of the Reconstruction period, in Jacksonville, Florida, Johnson was imbued with an eclectic set of talents. Over the course of his sixty-seven years, Johnson was the first African American admitted to the Florida bar since the end of Reconstruction; the co-composer (with his brother John Rosamond) of 'Lift Every Voice and Sing,' the song that would later become known as the Negro National Anthem; field secretary in the NAACP; journalist; publisher; diplomat; educator; translator; librettist; anthologist; and English professor; in addition to being a well-known poet and novelist and one of the prime movers of the Harlem Renaissance. As the first son of James Johnson and the former Helen Louise Dillet, James Weldon inherited his forebears' combination of industrious energy and public-mindedness, as demonstrated by his maternal grandfathers long life in public service in the Bahamas, where he served in the House of Assembly for thirty years. James, Sr., spent many years as the headwaiter of the St. James Hotel in Jacksonville, Florida, where he had moved the family after his sponge fishing and dray businesses were ruined by a hurricane that hit the Bahamas in 1866. James, Jr., was born and educated in Jacksonville, first by his mother, who taught for many years in the public schools, and later by James C. Walter, the well-educated but stern principal of the Stanton School. Graduating at the age of sixteen, Johnson enrolled in Atlanta University, from which be graduated in 1894. After graduation, Johnson, though only twenty-three, returned to the Stanton School to become its principal.

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PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide Paul P. Reuben Chapter 9: Harlem Renaissance - James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) "The Creation" (from God's Trombones Primary Works Selected Bibliography: Books ... Home Page Source: Modern American Poetry "I will not allow one prejudiced person or one million or one hundred million to blight my life. I will not let prejudice or any of its attendant humiliations and injustices bear me down to spiritual defeat. My inner life is mine, and I shall defend and maintain its integrity against all the powers of hell (quoted in Skinner, 237, listed below)." Top "The Creation" (from God's Trombones And God stepped out on space, And he looked around and said: I'm lonely - I'll make me a world. And far as the eye of God could see 5 Darkness covered everything, Blacker than a hundred midnights Down in a cypress swamp. Then God smiled, And the light broke, 10 And the darkness rolled up on one side, And the light stood shining on the other

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Biography Johnson's parents, James and Helen Louise Early Years Johnson as a member of the Atlanta University Quartette College While attending Atlanta University, from which he earned his A.B. in 1894, Johnson taught for two summers in rural Hampton, Georgia. There he experienced life among poor African Americans, from which he had been largely sheltered during his middle-class upbringing in Jacksonville. During the summer before his senior year he attended the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where, on "Colored People's Day," he listened to a speech by Frederick Douglass and heard poems read by Paul Laurence Dunbar, with whom he soon became friends. Bob Cole, James Weldon Johnson, and John Rosamond Johnson Educator and Songwriter After graduating from Atlanta University, Johnson became the principal of the Jacksonville school where his mother had taught, improving education there by adding ninth and tenth grades. In 1895 he founded a newspaper, the Daily American , designed to educate Jacksonville's adult black community, but problems with finances forced it to shut down after only eight months. While still serving as a public school principal, Johnson studied law and became the first African American to pass the bar exam in Florida. When Johnson's younger brother, John Rosamond, graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music in 1897, the two began collaborating on a musical theater. Though there attempts to get their comic opera "Tolosa" produced in New York in 1899 were unsuccessful, Johnson's experiences there excited his creative energies. He soon began writing lyrics, for which his brother composed music, including "Lift Every Voice and Sing," which subsequently came to be known as the "Negro National Anthem." The Johnson brothers soon teamed up with Bob Cole to write songs. In 1902, Johnson resigned his post as principal in Jacksonville, and the two brothers moved to New York, where their partnership with Cole proved very successful.

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