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James Weldon Johnson (June 17, 1871 – June 26, 1938) was a leading American author, poet, early civil rights activist, and prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Johnson is best remembered for his writing, which includes novels, poems, and collections of folklore. He was also one of the first African-American professors at New York University.

Contents 1 Tributes 2 Selected works 2.1 Poetry 2.2 Other works and collections 3 Notes 4 External links

[edit] Tributes

One of his poems, "Sence You Went Away," was adapted into a song by Kris Delmhorst on her 2006 release Strange Conversation.

A middle school in Jacksonville,Florida, James Weldon Johnson College Preparatory Middle School, is named in his honor.

[edit] Selected works

[edit] Poetry

• Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917)
• God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (1927)
• Saint Peter Relates an Incident (1935)
• Selected Poems (1936)

[edit] Other works and collections

• The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912/1927)
• Self-Determining Haiti (1920)
• Black Manhattan (1930)
• Negro Americans, What Now? (1934)
• Along This Way (1934)
• The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson (1995, posthumous collection)

[edit] Notes

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[edit] External links

• Essays about James Weldon Johnson
• Works by James Weldon Johnson at Project Gutenberg
• James Weldon Johnson's Gravesite

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