This selection of more than forty poems from a reading figure of the Harlem Renaissance includes both uncompromising indictments of racial injustice and celebrations of the triumphs of African-Americans.
Author: James Weldon Johnson · Original publisher: Penguin Books / Penguin Classics (2000) (later/standard edition)
Tier 3 — Partial text + link. The public-domain portions of this book are hosted on this page: poems drawn from Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917) and God's Trombones (1927) are public domain, as is the title poem of Saint Peter Relates an Incident (1930); any poem first published in the 1935 Saint Peter collection is not. (Our catalog record is a later edition.) The full text of the qualifying portions is held in fulltexts/ as `3185-lift-every-voice-and-sing-selected-poems-of-jame.txt` (see fulltexts/INDEX.md).
