Product Description: This vivid and startlingly new picture of conditions brought about by the race question in the United States makes no special plea for the Negro, but shows in a dispassionate, though sympathetic, manner conditions as they actually exist between the whites and blacks to-day...read more

The first authoritative compilation of works by the pioneering African-American writer includes the author's seminal modernist novel The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, as well as a selection of his influentical essays, topical editorials from the New York Age, and poetry and lyrics, including God's Trombones.

A remarkable compendium of more than forty poems from a leading voice of the Harlem Renaissance celebrates the triumphs of African Americans and offers a stunning indictment of racial injustice and prejudice, in a collection published to coincide with the centenary of 'Lift Every Voice and Sing,' the AfricanAmerican National Anthem. Reprint.

Product Description: The full range of literary traditions comes to life in the Twayne Critical Essays Series. Volume editors have carefully selected critical essays that represent the full spectrum of controversies, trends and methodologies relating to each author's work...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: 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.

Product Description: James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) would have been judged a 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...read more