James Weldon Johnson
The Black Experience in America, 18th-20th Century, Vol. 1
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This is not the copyrighted work by Norman Coombs currently on Project Gutenberg but a collection of non-fiction, fiction, poetry, drama, an…
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
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Johnson's only novel, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, was originally published anonymously in 1912. It is a fictional novel written …
30 American Poems
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This is a sequel of sorts to 37 American Poems, one of my first solos. Concentration here is on late 19th to early 20th Century works by US …
37 American Poems
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Here are 37 distinctively American poems, covering the mid-17th - early 20th Centuries, from Anne Bradstreet to Dorothy Parker's sole PD wor…
Grandma Janice's Poems and Stories
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The poems and stories in this collection were selected with the reader’s grandchildren in mind. “The Raggedy Man” and “Little Orphant Annie,…
The Word of an Engineer
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James Weldon Johnson was an American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist. Johnson is best remembered f…
The Book of American Negro Poetry
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The Book of American Negro Poetry is one of the earliest and most essential anthologies of African-American verse ever brought to print. Edi…
1912: Short Works Collection
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This is a collection of public domain works either published in 1912, or written in 1912 and published before 1923. The accent is on non-fic…
The Upward Path: A Reader For Colored Children
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From the preface of the book: "To the present time, there has been no collection of stories and poems by Negro writers, which colored c…
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (version 2)
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The story of a biracial man living in the deep south after the reconstruction era. He is young and talented. Yet, in order for him to avoid …
Short Poetry Collection 113
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This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for October 2012.
Short Poetry Collection 116
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This is a collection of 25 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for January 2013.
Short Poetry Collection 140
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This is a collection of 32 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for January 2015.
Short Poetry Collection 117
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This is a collection of 21 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for February 2013.
Deep In The Quiet Wood
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James Weldon Johnson was an American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist. Johnson is best remembered f…
Morning, Noon and Night
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 readings of Morning, Noon and Night by James Weldon Johnson. This was the weekly poetry project for the wee…
Short Poetry Collection 005
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LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 005: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.
Short Poetry Collection 038
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LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 038: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.
Short Poetry Collection 175
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This is a collection of 34 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for December 2017.
Short Poetry Collection 184
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This is a collection of 38 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for September 2018.
Short Poetry Collection 148
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This is a collection of 27 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for September 2015.
Short Poetry Collection 144
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This is a collection of 31 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for May 2015.
Mother Night
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LibriVox volunteers bring you fifteen different readings of Mother Night, by James Weldon Johnson. This weekly poetry project (for the week …
Short Poetry Collection 036
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LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 036: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.
Short Poetry Collection 203
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This is a collection of 63 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for April 2020.
Short Poetry Collection 173
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This is a collection of 41 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for October 2017.
The Gift To Sing
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of The Gift To Sing by James Weldon Johnson.This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 9, 2019.…
Short Poetry Collection 216
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This is a collection of 45 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for May 2021.
Fifty Years & Other Poems
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This is a collection of poems by James Weldon Johnson. Johnson was an early civil rights activist, and this theme is the basis for many of t…
Sunset in the Tropics
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of "Sunset in the Tropics." This is the Weekly Poetry for the week of August 10, 2014.…
Sonnet (From the Spanish of Plácido)
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James Weldon Johnson was an American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist. Johnson is best remembered f…
O Southland!
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In celebration of Juneteenth, LibriVox volunteers bring you five different versions of O Southland!, by James Weldon Johnson. This was the …