The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man

By James Weldon Johnson

First published anonymously in 1912, this resolutely unsentimental novel gave many white readers their first glimpse of the double standard -- and double consciousness -- that ruled the lives of bl...

Black Manhattan Studies in American Negro Life Edited by August Meier

By James Weldon Johnson

Lift every voice and sing

By Debbie Egan Chin, James Weldon Johnson

Black-and-white photographs accompany this version of the song that has come to be considered the African American national anthem.

Lift every voice and sing

By James Weldon Johnson

Black-and-white photographs accompany this version of the song that has come to be considered the African American national anthem.

The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man Lib E

By James Weldon Johnson, Bill Andrew Quinn

Lift every voice and sing

By James Weldon Johnson

An illustrated version of the song that has come to be considered the African American national anthem.

Lift every voice and sing

By James Weldon Johnson

An illustrated version of the song that has come to be considered the African American national anthem.

Lift every voice and sing

By James Weldon Johnson

An illustrated version of the song that has come to be considered the African American national anthem.

The autobiography of an ex-coloured man

By James Weldon Johnson

The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson

By Edited, With An Introduction By Rudolph P. Byrd Foreword By Charles Johnson

“A canonical collection, splendidly and sensitively edited by Rudolph Byrd.”–Henry Louis Gates, Jr.One of the leading voices of the Harlem Resaissance and a crucial literary figur...