God's Trombones

Name: God's Trombones
Author: James Weldon Johnson

by James Weldon Johnson

Verse poetry interpreting African American spirituals and folk sermons

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James Weldon Johnson

James Weldon Johnson was a polymath—lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, novelist—whose The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is a pioneering exploration of racial passing and Black identity in America. He was a central figure in the NAACP and the Harlem Renaissance.

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