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This book was really well done. It really helped me with a report I was doing on James Weldon Johnson. I learned a lot that I didn't know before, I'm really glad I read it, I'm just sorry it is unavailable.Lanky ... Read more

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Originally published in 1920.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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_If homely virtues draw from me a tune

In happy jingle or a half-sad croon;

Or if the smoldering future should inspire

My hand to strike the seer's prophetic lyre;

Or if injustice, brutishness and wrong

Should make a blasting trumpet of my song;

O God, give beauty and strength--truth to my words,

Oh, may they fall like sweetly cadenced chords,

Or burn like beacon fires from out the dark,

Or speed like arrows, swift and sure, to the mark._ ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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CONTENTS PAGE . Fiftyyears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - To America . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 4 Black and Unknown Bards . . . . . . . . . 5 0 Southland . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Fragment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 To Horace Bumstead . . . . . . . . 10 The Color Sergeant . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 The Black Mammy . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Father. Father Abraharn . . . . . . . . . . 13 - Brothers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 The White Witch . . . . . . . . . 17 Mother Night . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 The Young Warrior . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face . . . . 2 1 From the Spanish of Placido . . . . . . . . . 22 From the Spanish . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 From the German of Uhland . . . . . . . . 23 Before a Painting . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 T Hear the Stars Still Singing . . . . . . . . 24 Girl of Fifteen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 The Suicide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Down by the Carib Sea . . . . . . . . . . 27 Sunrise in the Tropics . . . . . . . . . 27 Los Cigarrillos . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Teestay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 The Lottery Girl . . . . . . . . . . . 30 The Dancing Girl . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Sunset in the Tropics . . . . . . . . . . 33 t n d the Greatest of These is War . . . . . . . 34 Mid-Day Dreamer . . . . . . . . . . . 37 The Temptress . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 G hosts of the Old Year . . . . 39 ix CONTENTS b e Ghost of Deacon Brown . . Omar . . . . . . . . . . . Lazy1 . . . . . . . . . . Deep in the Quiet Wood . . . . The Word of an Engineer . . . Sleep . . . . . . . . . . . - Life . . . . . . . . . . . Voluptao . . . . . . . . . Prayer at Sunrise . . . . . . The Gift to Sing . . . . . . . Morning, Noon and Night . . . Her EyesTwin Pools . . . . . TheAwakening . . . . . . . Beauty that is Never Old . . . Venus in a Garden . . . . . . Vashti . . . . . . . . . . The Reward . . . PAGE . 40 . 41 . 42 . 43 . 44 . 45 . 47 . 48 . 46 . 47 . 48 . 49 . 50 . 49 v 51 JINGLES and CROONS Sence You Went Away . . . . . . . . . . . 5 9 Ma Ladys Lips Am Like de Honey . . . . . . 6 0 Tunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Nobodys Lookin but de Owl an de Moon . . 64 Yous Sweet to Yo Mamrny jes de Same . . . . 65 A Plantation Bacchanal . . . . . . . . . . 66 July in Georgy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 A Banjo Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 - F Answer to Prayer . . . . . . . 70 Dat Gal o Mine . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 The Seasons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3 - Possum Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Brer Rabbit. Yous de Cutes of Em All . . . . 7 6 An Explanation . . . . . . . 77 De Little Pickaninnys Gone to SIeep . . . . . 78 The Rivals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 9 INTRODUCTION Of the hundred millions who make up the population of the United States ten millions come from a stock ethnicaIly alien to the other ninety millions. They are not descended from ancestors who came here voluntarily, in the spirit of adventure to better themselves or in the spirit of devotion to make sure of freedom to worship God in their own way. They are the grandchildren of men and women brought here against their wills to serve as slaves... ... Read more

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Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us.

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James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) would would have been judgeda successful man had he merely remained the principal of Stanton School in his hometown of Jacksonville, FL. Destiny led him, however, to become the first African-American to pass the Florida Bar exam, to win international acclaim as a songwriter, poet, novelist, diplomat, playwright, journalist, and champion of human rights. Since that time, though, his life and contributions have gone virtually unnoticed, except for his well-known song, "Lift Every Voice and Sing."

Johnson's dual role as civil rights leader and literary artist was unprecedented and has not been replicated since. He used this duality in attempt to exonerate black Americans from the psychological and physical persecutions of "Jim Crow." These two volumes comprise of Johnson's literary work, song lyrics, andboth his literary and political essays. A critical introduction places Johnson in relation to other black artists, the development of African-American literature, and early integrationist movements.

By painting a vivid picture of the race problem in this nation, and by his portrayal of the successes and possibilities of his race, he pricked white America's conscience. This collection serves as witness to Johnson's pioneering a momentous standard for African-American literature while he laid the groundwork for the early civil rights movement in America. ... Read more

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These two volumes of writings represent Johnson's experiences as one of black America's premier civil rights statesmen, and leader, participant, and historian of the Black Literary Movement of the 1920s. ... Read more