Along This Way
The Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson
The autobiography of the celebrated African American writer and civil rights activist
Published just four years before his death in 1938, James Weldon Johnson's autobiography is a fascinating portrait of an African American who broke the racial divide at a time when the Harlem Renaissance had not yet begun to usher in the civil rights movement. Not only an educator, lawyer, and diplomat, Johnson was also one of the most revered leaders of his time, going on to serve as the first black president of the NAACP (which had previously been run only by whites), as well as write the groundbreaking novel The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man. Beginning with his birth in Jacksonville, Florida, and detailing his education,…
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January 29, 2008JAMES WELDON JOHNSON (1871–1938) was a novelist, poet, lawyer, editor, ethnomusicologist, and coauthor of the hymn “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” which is informally known as the Black national anthem. Born in Jacksonville, Florida, he was educated at Atlanta University and at Columbia University and was the first Black lawyer 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 University. His other books include an autobiography, Along This Way and God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse.
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
James Weldon Johnson; Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
James Weldon Johnson; Introduction by Gregory Pardlo
The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson
Edited and with an Introduction by Rudolph P. Byrd Foreword by Charles Johnson
God's Trombones
James Weldon Johnson
Along This Way
James Weldon Johnson
Complete Poems
James Weldon Johnson