41. Jass.com: Bob Cole, J. Rosamond Johnson, And James Weldon Johnson J. Rosamond and james weldon johnson were born in Jacksonville, Florida, james weldon in 1871 and Rosamond in 1873. By the age of four, Rosamond was already http://jass.com/c&j.html

Bob Cole, J. Rosamond Johnson, and James Weldon Johnson 1992, 2000 by Thomas L Morgan B ob Cole was born in Athens, Georgia, on July 1, 1868. His earliest published songs were issued in 1893, and one of his earliest stage jobs was with Sam T. Jack's Creole Show , the first African-American show to break from the strict minstrel tradition of all male performers. Cole also performed as an actor and directed the All Star Stock Company at Worth's Museum in New York, the first such company organized by African-Americans. When he was 27 years old and performing with Black Patti's Troubadours, Cole was engaged by the Troubadours' producers to write an entire show with Billy Johnson, his first collaborator. After a dispute over ownership of his music, Cole and Johnson left to organize Cole's own company. Elaborating on his early short sketches, he created a full-length musical which was performed off-Broadway in New York's Third Avenue Theater during the 1898-99 season. A Trip To Coontown was the first musical entirely written, performed, produced, and owned by African-Americans. Unlike other black entertainments of the time, Cole's production had a book and lyrics that could sustain a dramatic subplot. After the show closed, Cole and Billy Johnson broke off their working relationship, and Cole met the two men with whom he was to create his most successful songs.

42. GeorgiaInfo - Carl Vinson Institute Of Government james weldon johnson. johnson was born in Jacksonville, Fla. on June 17, 1871. He attended Atlanta University, where he wrote over 30 poems while a student. http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/jwjohnson.htm

Search GeorgiaInfo Welcome to GeorgiaInfo What's New This Day in Georgia History Instructional Handout Masters ... U.S. Government James Weldon Johnson Johnson was born in Jacksonville, Fla. on June 17, 1871. He attended Atlanta University, where he wrote over 30 poems while a student. At graduation ceremonies in 1894, Johnson gave the senior address for his graduating class. After Atlanta University, Johnson returned to Jacksonville, Fla., where he became principal of that city's Colored High School. At the same time he studied law, and in 1897 Johnson became the first black admitted to the Florida Bar. After practicing law for a short time, Johnson returned to Atlanta University to obtain a master's degree in 1903. From 1900 to 1906, he and his brother collaborated in composing over 200 songs, including what many consider the black national anthem, " Lift Every Voice and Sing ." In 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt named Johnson U.S. consul to Venezuela, a post he followed that of consul to Nicaragua. In 1917, Johnson obtained a doctorate from Talladega College in Alabama, followed by a doctorate from Howard University in 1923. In 1916, he began working with the NAACP, and in 1920 became the organization's executive secretary. In this role for the next ten years, Johnson was an ardent fighter for federal anti-lynching laws. Throughout this and the two earlier decades, the multi-talented Johnson also wrote poetry and prose, including The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

43. James Weldon Johnson, 1871-1938 To james weldon johnson writing was a serious but secondary interest. johnson s main concern was the NAACP, and he served from 1916 until 1930 as its field http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/johnson/bio.html

Highlights About Collections Authors ... Titles by James Weldon Johnson >> James Weldon Johnson, 1871-1938 James Weldon Johnson, 1871-1938 Johnson, James Weldon (1871-1938), Writer, civil rights leader, diplomat. To James Weldon Johnson writing was a serious but secondary interest. Johnson's main concern was the NAACP, and he served from 1916 until 1930 as its field secretary. Johnson also had other interests and even a variety of careers. Born in 1871 in Jacksonville, Fla., he was the principal of a primary school there. He was the founder of The Daily American , the first black daily newsletter, and was admitted to the Florida bar in 1897. Johnson and his brother, Rosamond, wrote successful Broadway musicals; he served as consul to Venezuela and Nicaragua during the administrations of Presidents Roosevelt and Taft. He edited The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922) and The Book of American Negro Spirituals (with Rosamond, in 1925), created the seven black sermons in verse that make up God's Trombones (1927), and wrote his autobiography, Along This Way (1933). He also authored

44. From Revolution To Reconstruction: Outlines: Outline Of American Literature: The Like Du Bois, the poet james weldon johnson found inspiration in AfricanAmerican spirituals. His poem O Black and Unknown Bards (1917) asks http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/lit/johnson.htm

var level = 2; FRtR Outlines American Literature The Rise of Realism: 1860-1914: James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) An Outline of American Literature by Kathryn VanSpanckeren The Rise of Realism: 1860-1914: James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) Index Like Du Bois, the poet James Weldon Johnson found inspiration in African-American spirituals. His poem "O Black and Unknown Bards" (1917) asks: Heart of what slave poured out such melody As "Steal Away to Jesus?" On its strains His spirit must have nightly floated free, Though still about his hands he felt his chains. Of mixed white and black ancestry, Johnson explored the complex issue of race in his fictional Autobiography of an Ex- Colored Man (1912), about a mixed-race man who "passes" (is accepted) for white. The book effectively conveys the black American's concern with issues of identity in America. Index

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46. James Weldon Johnson Criticism james weldon johnson Criticism and Essays. johnson, james weldon 1871–1938. Emancipation Proclamation, appeared in the New York Times. http://www.enotes.com/poetry-criticism/johnson-james-weldon

utmSetVar('lit_all'); James Weldon Johnson Criticism and Essays Welcome, guest! Login Join eNotes Entire Site Literature Science History Business Soc. Sciences Health Arts College Journals Literature Science History Business ... Z Search All Criticism: Printable Version Download PDF Cite this Page James Weldon Johnson 1871–1938 American novelist, poet, autobiographer, historian, and critic. INTRODUCTION Johnson is regarded as an influential black American author whose novel The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912) impacted the work of later writers concerned with the nature of racial identity. Seen as an accurate sociological depiction of the lives of black Americans by his contemporaries, Johnson's novel is today viewed as a complex work providing an ambiguous psychological study of its anonymous title character. Although literature for Johnson was only one aspect of an active and varied professional life, he produced accomplished works in several literary genres, including the novel, conventional and experimental poetry, popular songs, literary and social criticism, and autobiography. As a poet, Johnson is best known for God's Trombones (1927), a collection of seven poems which capture the rhythmic and spiritual essence of traditional black sermons. He is furthermore recognized for his groundbreaking editorship of

47. Johnson, James Weldon - Hutchinson Encyclopedia Article About Johnson, James Wel Hutchinson encyclopedia article about johnson, james weldon. johnson, james weldon. Information about johnson, james weldon in the Hutchinson encyclopedia. http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Johnson, James Weldon

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51. James Weldon Johnson Written by civil rights leader and poet james weldon johnson in 1899, the powerful words of the song often called the AfricanAmerican anthem come alive http://aalbc.com/authors/jamesw.htm

document.write(''); James W Johnson African American Literature Book Club - The #1 Site for "Readers of Black Literature" Enter your search terms Submit search form Search the Web AALBC.com Thumpers Corner Book Search AALBC.com Home Back Author Home Up ... James Weldon Johnson Click Name for list of Titles Photogragh (Library Of Congress) Author of " Lift Every Voice and Sing " otherwise know as the Negro National Anthem or Black National Anthem. The Autobiography of an EX-Colored Man With Henry Louis Gates Click to order via Amazon ISBN Format : Paperback, 256pp Pub Date : December 1989 Publisher : Knopf Publishing Group 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 black people in modern America. Republished in 1927, at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, with an introduction by Carl Van Vechten, The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man became a groundbreaking document of Afro-American culture; the first first-person novel ever written by a black, it became an eloquent model for later novelists ranging from Zora Neale Hurston to Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison. Narrated by a man whose light skin enables him to "pass" for white, the novel describes a journey through the strata of black society at the turn of the century — from a cigar factory in Jacksonville to an elite gambling club in New York, from genteel aristocrats to the musicians who hammered out the rhythms of ragtime. The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man is a complex and moving examination of the question of race and an unsparing look at what it meant to forge an identity as a man in a culture that recognized nothing but color.

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The James Weldon Johnson Community School of the Arts 1600 Taylor Street, NE * Washington, DC 20017 * Phone: (202) 269-0739 * E-Mail: Office@jwjcsa.org Welcome This website was created to provide easy access to up-to-date information regarding JWJCSA programs and activities. Though this website is still undergoing substantial development, relevant and current information will be posted on a regular basis. This website is best viewed through using an internet browser that supports frames. What's New The James Weldon Johnson Community School of the Arts invites you to attend a free concert on Saturday, September 18th at 3:00 p.m. celebrating the school's fifth anniversary. The concert, which will be held in the Ward Recital Hall of The Catholic University of America , will be a live taping of arts songs, classical music, sacred music, and jazz music performed by faculty and special guests of The James Weldon Johnson Community School of the Arts. Please join us in celebrating this special time. Donations will be solicited in support of JWJCSA and its continuing mission to provide quality arts education to residents of the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area. On-line donations can be made through

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55. African Americans - James Weldon Johnson, Author Of The Negro National Anthem, L Born james William johnson in Jacksonville, Florida, on 17 June 1871 he changed his middle name to weldon in 1913 the future teacher, poet, songwriter, http://www.africanamericans.com/JamesWeldonJohnson.htm

Home History Heritage Civil Rights People Religion Current News and Topics Resources Sports Related Sites News Sites Additional Sites of Interest Government Sites Relief Organizations Military Sites Military Support Sites AmericanIndians.com AmericanRevolution.com HomeworkHotline.com MedalofHonor.com ... VietnamWar.com James Weldon Johnson Johnson's parents, James and Helen Louise Early Years Born James William Johnson in Jacksonville, Florida, on 17 June 1871 he changed his middle name to Weldon in 1913 the future teacher, poet, songwriter, and civil rights activist was the son of a headwaiter and the first female black public school teacher in Florida, both of whom had roots in Nassau, Bahamas. The second of three children, Johnson's interests in reading and music were encouraged by his parents. After graduating from the school where his mother taught, Johnson spent time with relatives in Nassau and in New York before continuing with his education. Johnson as a member of the Atlanta University Quartette College While attending Atlanta University, from which he earned his A.B. in 1894, Johnson taught for two summers in rural Hampton, Georgia. There he experienced life among poor African Americans, from which he had been largely sheltered during his middle-class upbringing in Jacksonville. During the summer before his senior year he attended the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where, on "Colored People's Day," he listened to a speech by

56. Countee Cullen Branch | The New York Public Library We are home to the james weldon johnson Reference Collection for children, located in the second floor story hour room; books on the AfricanAmerican http://www.nypl.org/branch/local/man/htr.cfm

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58. James Weldon Johnson's Black Manhattan And The Kingdom Of American Culture. - Fr Free Online Library james weldon johnson s Black Manhattan and the Kingdom of American Culture. by African American Review ; Literature, writing, http://www.thefreelibrary.com/James Weldon Johnson's Black Manhattan and the Kin

CacheBuster('') Printer Friendly over 3,000,000 articles and books Periodicals Literature Keyword Title Author Topic Member login User name Password Remember me Join us Forgot password? Submit articles free The Free Library ... African American Review artId=139434652;usrSelf=false; James Weldon Johnson's Black Manhattan and the Kingdom of American Culture. Surely there shall yet dawn some mighty morning to lift the Veil and set the prisoned free.... When men ask artists, not "Are they black?" but "Do they know?"W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk 510 "To the general American public," James Weldon Johnson claimed in his 1928 essay "Double Audience Makes Road Hard for Negro Negro or Negroid: see race. Authors," the recent appearance of "the Negro author" on the lists of the best publishers and the best-sellers must seem "a novelty, a strange phenomenon, a miracle straight out of the skies" (408). He used nearly identical phrasing two years later to describe the emergence of modern Harlem at the outset of Black Manhattan (hereafter BM), his chronicle of African Americans in New York: "It strikes the uninformed observer as a phenomenon, a miracle straight out of the skies" (34). The common phrasing suggests the extent to which, for Johnson, "the Negro author"the highest agent of a racial and national "culture"owed his or her recognition to the existence of a densely populated, racially homogenous, yet cosmopolitan cultural center contiguous with, and in this case literally inside, a larger, racially heterogenous, cosmopolitan cultural center.

59. SSSL: Bibliography: Writers: James Weldon Johnson A Spectacular Secret Lynching in American Life and Literature, Jacqueline Goldsby (2006); james weldon johnson Writings, William L. Andrews (2004) http://www.missq.msstate.edu/sssl/view.php?wid=253

60. The Creation, By James Weldon Johnson The Creation is reprinted from The Book of American Negro Poetry. Ed. james weldon johnson. New York Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1922. http://www.poetry-archive.com/j/the_creation.html

THE CREATION by: James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) ND God stepped out on space, And He looked around and said, "I'm lonely I'll make me a world." And far as the eye of God could see Darkness covered everything, Blacker than a hundred midnights Down in a cypress swamp. Then God smiled, And the light broke, And the darkness rolled up on one side, And the light stood shining on the other, And God said, "That's good!" Then God reached out and took the light in His hands, And God rolled the light around in His hands Until He made the sun; And He set that sun a-blazing in the heavens. And the light that was left from making the sun God gathered it up in a shining ball And flung it against the darkness

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