Author:James Weldon Johnson

James Weldon Johnson
(1871–1938)

James Weldon Johnson, 1932

Works

Poetry

Collections

• Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917) (transcription project)
• God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (1927) (external scan)

Individual poems

• "Untitled" in Negro Poets and Their Poems (1923)

• In The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922), edited by James Weldon Johnson
  • "O Black and Unknown Bards"
  • "Sence You Went Away"
  • "The Creation"
  • "The White Witch"
  • "Mother Night"
  • "O Southland"
  • "Brothers"
  • "Fifty Years"

Novels

• The Autobiography of an Ex-colored Man (1912) (transcription project)

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

• "Plácido's Farewell to his Mother" in The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922), edited by James Weldon Johnson

As editor

• The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922) (transcription project)
• The Book of American Negro Poetry, revised edition (1931)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2027 due to Renewal R228131

Works about Johnson

• "James Weldon Johnson" in Negro Poets and Their Poems (1923)