Jabarkan Warisan dan penghargaan dari James Weldon Johnson

1904, Honorary master's degree from Atlanta University.

1925, Spingarn Medal from the NAACP for outstanding achievement by an American Negro.

1928, Harmon Gold Award for God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (1927).

1929, Julius Rosenwald Fund Grant.

1933, W. E. B. Du Bois Prize for Negro Literature.

Honorary doctorates from Talladega College (1917) and Howard University (1923).

2007, Emory University in Atlanta established the James Weldon Johnson Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies in his honor.

The James Weldon Johnson building at Coppin State University is named in his honor.

The James Weldon Johnson Middle School is named in his honor.

Johnson is honored with a feast day on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church (USA) on June 25.

On February 2, 1988, the United States Postal Service issued a 22-cent postage stamp in his honor.

Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917)

God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (1927)

Saint Peter Relates an Incident: Selected Poems (1935)

The Book of Negro Spirituals (1925, editor), anthology

The Second Book of Negro Spirituals (1926, editor)

The Book of American Negro Poetry (1931, editor), anthology

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912/1927, novel)

Negro Americans, What Now? (1934, essay)

Along This Way: The Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson (1933/37, autobiography)

Fleming, Robert E. James Weldon Johnson. Twayne United States Authors Series. Boston: Twayne, 1987.

Hester, Elizabeth J. "James Weldon Johnson: A Bibliography of * Johnson, James Weldon. Writings. Ed. William L. Andrews. The Library of America, 2004. ISBN 978-1-931082-52-5.

Kishimoto, Hisao. "The Eve of the Harlem Renaissance James Weldon Johnson (II)", ( ) Souka University English Language Academic Journal (創価大学英文学会). Souka University. March 1988. Volume No. 12, Issue No. 2 (第12巻第2号). p. 1-16.

Levy, Eugene. James Weldon Johnson: Black Leader, Black Voice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973.

Morrissette, Noelle. James Weldon Johnson's Modern Soundscapes. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2013.

Price, Kenneth M., and Lawrence J. Oliver. Critical Essays on James Weldon Johnson. New York: G. K. Hall, 1997.

Dissertations and Theses 1939–2009." ISBN 978-1-935779-00-1.

Manning, Patrick. The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010.