LibGuides: Primary Sources: The 1910's: Johnson, James Weldon

Online Sources: James Weldon Johnson

Smithsonian Institution: James Weldon Johnson
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Mostly images (paintings, drawings, photos) of Johnson.
James Weldon Johnson - Librivox
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Listen to audio versions of some of Johnson's works.
PennSound James Weldon Johnson Page
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"These recordings were made on December 24, 1935 at Columbia University, recorded by Barnard professors George W. Hibbitt and W. Cabell Greet, lexicologists and scholars of American dialects."

Anthology of Negro Poets in the U.S.A. - 200 Years
Call Number: Online - Alexander Street Press
Track 7. Johnson, James Weldon: The Creation (04:40)
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson;
Call Number: PS3519.O2625 A95 2015
ISBN: 9780393972863
: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism
Black Manhattan by James Weldon Johnson
Call Number: F128.9.N3 J67 1991
ISBN: 030680431X
Reprint, with new introd. Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1930.
Fifty years & other Poems by James Weldon Johnson
Call Number: Online - HathiTrust
Reprinted in part from various periodicals
The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson by Sondra Kathryn Wilson (Editor)
Call Number: PS3519.O2625 A6 1995
ISBN: 0195076443
v. 1. The New York age editorials (1914-1923) -- v. 2. Social, political, and literary essays.
Self-determining Haiti by James Weldon Johnson
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Publication Date: 1920
Four articles reprinted from the Nation embodying a report of an investigation made for the Advancement of Colored People, together with official documents.
Writings (James Weldon Johnson) by James Weldon Johnson
Call Number: PS3519.O2625 A6 2004
ISBN: 1931082529
The autobiography of an ex-colored man -- Along this way -- New York Age editorials -- Selected essays -- Black Manhattan -- Selected poems

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