Author:James Weldon Johnson

For authors with similar names, see Author:James Johnson.
James Weldon Johnson
(1871–1938)

American author and civil rights activist; leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance

James Weldon Johnson, 1932

Works

Poetry

Collections
Individual poems

Novels

Non-fiction

  • The book of American Negro spirituals (transcription project)
  • The Second Book of Negro Spirituals (1926, editor)
  • Native African Races and Culture (1927) (external scan)
  • Black Manhattan (1930)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2026 due to Renewal R205995

As translator

As editor

Works about Johnson

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1930.


This author died in 1938, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 86 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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