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Fifty years & Other Poems
by James Weldon JOHNSON (1871 - 1938)Answer to Prayer
This is a collection of poems by James Weldon Johnson. Johnson was an early civil rights activist, and this theme is the basis for many of the poems in this collection as well. This volume also contains an introduction by Brander Matthews.The first half of this volume contains poems in classical style and form, the second half of this collection is a set of "Jingles & Croons". - Summary by Carolin
Listen next episodes of Fifty years & Other Poems:
An Explanation , Brer Rabbit, You'se de Cutes' of 'Em All , Dat Gal o' Mine , De Little Pickaninny's Gone to Sleep , 'Possum Song , The Rivals , The Seasons