Edited with an introduction by Sondra Kathryn Wilson.

Lift Every Voice, James Weldon Johnson's most famous lyric, is now embraced as the Negro National Anthem. In celebration, this Penguin original presents all the poems from Johnson's published works - Fifty Years And Other Poems (1917), God's Trombones (1927) and Saint Peter Relates An Incident Of The Resurrection Day (1935) - along with a number of previously unpublished poems.

Sondra Kathryn Wilson, the foremost authority on Johnson and his work, provides an introduction that sheds light on Johnson's many achievements and his pioneering contributions to recording and celebrating the African American experience.

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