James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography Of An Ex-Colored Man

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James Weldon Johnson was born in Jacksonville, Florida (1871-1938). He began his work at a small post in venezuela. Later he changed to a better job in nicaragua, where he completed the novel ‘The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man’. In addition, Johnson learned to play music and write literature. Education at that time was not available to black people. He was sent by his parents to a preparatory school at Atlanta University in Georgia, where he graduated in 1894. Immediately, he received a scholarship from Harvard University Medical School. Johnson tried other careers, like being a lawyer with a private practice as a founder of the “Daily American.” I believe that it was the first black newspaper in the country. After he graduated he worked as a school principal in Jacksonville. Weldon not only was a great poet: he wrote a song for Lincoln’s birthday named “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” Also, Weldon became popular in the black community and became known as the “Negro National Anthem”.
An important influence for Weldon’s writing was his mother, she also studied English literature and music, but a very important factor was that Weldon Johnson was a very religious person.
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“The collection as a very modest composition in standard poetic forms and of verse characterized by the minstrel dialect often used by poets of the time. There were negative criticism as a very good ones James Weldon Johnson became the national organizer for the national aspiration for the advancement of colored”. According to “The Creation by James Weldon Johnson” this poems give an impression of the rural south, where he attended college.“Critics have regarded God’s Trombones as an impressive poetic achievement and have lauded its superb translation of the rhythms and metaphors of black preachers into literary form” (The Creation by James Weldon
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