God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON (1871–1938) was a songwriter, poet, novelist, journalist, critic, autobiographer, lawyer, and public servant. With his brother John Rosamond, he wrote “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” which became the African American national anthem. He was United States consul to Venezuela and Nicaragua, executive director of the NAACP, and a professor of creative literature at Fisk University. His many books includeThe Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man.--This text refers to theAudio CDedition.