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<title>BLB Hymns</title>
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<h2>James Weldon Johnson</h2>
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<h2>1871-1938</h2>
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<center><b>Hymns Supplied Through the Gracious Generosity<br>of the </b><a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/" target = "_blank"><b>Cyber Hymnal Website</b></a><br><br><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/cyberhymnal_info.html" target = "_blank">Information about Cyber Hymnal Website</a></center>
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<td align="center" width="205"><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_j_o_johnson_jw.jpg" alt="James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)" width="136.666666666667" height="187.333333333333"><br>
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<span class="cou">Courtesy of United States Library of Congress</span></td>
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<td><em>Born:</em> June 17, 1871, Jacksonville, Florida.
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<p><em>Died:</em> June 26, 1938, Wiscasset, Maine, in a car accident.</td>
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<p class="just">Brother of composer <a href="johnson_jr.htm">John Rosamond Johnson</a>, James studied literature at Atlanta University (graduated 1894, M.A. 1904), and went on to become a song writer, anthologist, teacher, and lawyer; he was the first African-American to pass the bar in the state of Florida. In 1906 he became the American consul in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, and in 1909, consul in Corinto, Nicaragua.
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In 1920, he was appointed Executive Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. His works include:</p>
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<li><em>The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man</em>, 1920</li>
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<li><em>The Book of American Negro Poetry</em>, 1922</li>
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<li><em>God’s Trombones</em>, 1927</li>
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<li><em>Along This Way</em>, 1933</li>
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<p><em>Hymns:</em></p>
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<li><a href = "./hymns/hymns_html/htm_l_i_liftevry.html" >Lift Every Voice and Sing</a></li>
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