Harlem Renaissance Man: James Weldon Johnson

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Diplomat and hymn-writer, Broadway lyricist, activist, and historian, James Weldon Johnson was an early figurehead of the NAACP. This week's episode explores his life and multifaceted legacy.

Podcaster: Lucy

Further Reading

James Weldon Johnson, Along This Way, Viking Press, (1933).

——, “The Creative Negro,” in: America As Americans See It, ed. Fred C. Ringel, Literary Guild, (1932), 160-165.

——, “God’s Trombones”.

——-, ed., The Book of American Negro Poetry. Repr., Harcourt, Brace, and Company, (1931). 

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Richard Hardack, "The Tragic Immigrant: Duality, Hybridity and the Discovery of Blackness in Mark Twain and James Weldon Johnson." ELH 82:1 (2015): 211-49.

Timo Müller. "James Weldon Johnson and the Genteel Tradition." Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory 69:2 (2013): 85-102.

NAACP: James Weldon Johnson. 

"James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)." In African American Almanac, ed. Lean'tin Bracks. Visible Ink Press, (2012). 

“James Weldon Johnson.” In: The Oxford Companion to African-American Literature, eds. William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster, and Trudier Harris, Oxford University Press, (1997).

Brian Roberts, "PASSING INTO DIPLOMACY: U.S. CONSUL JAMES WELDON JOHNSON AND THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN EX-COLORED MAN." Modern Fiction Studies 56:2 (2010): 290-316,469.

Tabitha Wang, “East St. Louis Race Riot, 1917.” 

Clark Atlanta University History.

“Brander Matthews.” 

Music: "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin Macleod (www.incompetech.com)