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  2. God's Trombones - Wikipedia

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    God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse is a 1927 book of poems by James Weldon Johnson patterned after traditional African-American religious oratory. African-American scholars Henry Louis Gates and Cornel West have identified the collection as one of Johnson's two most notable works, the other being Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man. [1]

  3. James Weldon Johnson - Wikipedia

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    James Weldon Johnson (June 17, 1871 – June 26, 1938) was an American writer and civil rights activist. He was married to civil rights activist Grace Nail Johnson . Johnson was a leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), where he started working in 1917.

  4. Lift Every Voice and Sing - Wikipedia

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    "Lift Every Voice and Sing" is a hymn with lyrics by James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) and set to music by his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson (1873–1954). Written from the context of African Americans in the late 19th century, the hymn is a prayer of thanksgiving to God as well as a prayer for faithfulness and freedom, with imagery that evokes the biblical Exodus from slavery to the freedom ...

  5. The history behind song ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ - AOL

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    The song was originally written as a poem in 1899 by James Weldon Johnson, ... The poem became a song when Johnson's brother John Rosamond Johnson composed an instrumental arrangement for it. The ...

  6. Your Arms Too Short to Box with God - Wikipedia

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    Later James Weldon Johnson used it in his poem "The Prodigal Son", which was published in his 1927 book of poems God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse. [4] The passage—which likewise refers to an arm (singular) rather than arms (plural)—reads: Young man— Young man— Your arm's too short to box with God.

  7. The Book of American Negro Poetry - Wikipedia

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    The Book of American Negro Poetry is a 1922 poetry anthology that was compiled by James Weldon Johnson. The first edition, published in 1922, was "the first of its kind ever published" [1] and included the works of thirty-one poets. A second edition was released in 1931 with works by nine additional poets.

  8. Creation - Wikipedia

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    The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth (2006), a book by biologist Edward O. Wilson "The Creation" (1927), a poem by James Weldon Johnson, published in God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse; La création du monde, a 1923 ballet by Darius Milhaud; Creation, an unreleased video game developed by Bullfrog Productions

  9. Lift Every Voice and Sing (sculpture) - Wikipedia

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    Savage named the sculpture Lift Every Voice and Sing after the poem and hymn, but the fair's organizing committee renamed it The Harp. Exhibited outside the redwood-clad Pavilion of Contemporary Art, it became very popular at the fair, and many postcards and 11 in (28 cm) metal replicas were sold as souvenirs.