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Fifty years & Other Poems

by James Weldon JOHNSON (1871 - 1938)

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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

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Listen next episodes of Fifty years & Other Poems:
A Banjo Song , A Plantation Bacchanal , An Explanation , Answer to Prayer , Brer Rabbit, You'se de Cutes' of 'Em All , Dat Gal o' Mine , De Little Pickaninny's Gone to Sleep , July in Georgy , Nobody's Lookin' but de Owl an' de Moon , 'Possum Song , The Rivals , The Seasons , You's Sweet to Yo' Mammy Jes de Same