Johnson, James Weldon

"First published anonymously in 1912, James Weldon Johnson's extraordinary first book narrates the inner struggle of a gifted, light-skinned black man living on the razor's edge of the color line in Jim Crow America. The novel's pioneering realism led many early readers to take it for an actual memoir and to challenge its veracity and authorship. Republished in 1927 under Johnson's name, the book became a major inspiration for the Harlem Renaissance and one of the landmark classics of African American literature."--.

A collection of inspirational poetic sermons by African-American preachers heard by Mr. Johnson in his youth.

A one-volume reproduction of "The Book of American Negro Spirituals," and "The Second Book of Negro Spirituals," featuring arrangements by J. Rosamond Johnson, and including an introductory essay by African-American poet James Weldon Johnson.

Traces the history of the African-American community in New York from the pre-revolutionary period through the 1920s.