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)

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.

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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 85 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.