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4 days ago · Some twenty-six white-on-black massacres took place across the country. Author and civil rights activist James Weldon Johnson dubbed this terrible period the Red Summer as a way to characterize pervasive racial hostility and for the blood spilled in its wake. Yet, racial violence has had a long and painful history in the United States.
2 days ago · James Weldon Johnson, who published two collections of black spirituals in 1927 and 1928, and Sterling Brown, who used the blues and southern work songs in many of the poems in his 1932 book of poetry, Southern Road, continued the practice that Hughes had initiated. Other writers exploited black religion as a literary source.
Jun 29, 2024 · An analysis of the To America poem by James Weldon Johnson including schema, poetic form, metre, stanzas and plenty more comprehensive statistics.
2 days ago · An analysis of the The Gift to Sing poem by James Weldon Johnson including schema, poetic form, metre, stanzas and plenty more comprehensive statistics.
5 days ago · Three fine Black poets— James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, and Countee Cullen—found old molds satisfactory for dealing with new subjects, specifically the problems of racism in America. The deceptively simple colloquial language of Hughes’s poetry has proved especially appealing to later readers.
5 days ago · Found In: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > God's trombones; seven Negro sermons in verse, by James Weldon Johnson, drawings by Aaron Douglas, lettering by C. B. Falls.
4 days ago · The song is filled with beautiful imagery that looks to better days. It was written by J. Rosamond Johnson and James Weldon Johnson, two brothers who were civil rights activists. The hymn-like melody is also quite powerful and beckons for reinterpretation. “America the Beautiful”
