{"product_id":"lift-every-voice-and-sing-selected-poems-9780141183879","title":"Lift Every Voice and Sing: Selected Poems","description":"This selection of more than forty poems from a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance includes both uncompromising indictments of racial injustice and celebrations of the triumphs of African-Americans. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Weldon Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1871. Among the first to break through the barriers segregating his race, he was educated at Atlanta University and at Columbia and was the first black admitted to the Florida bar. He was also, for a time, a songwriter in New York, American consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua, executive secretary of the NAACP, and professor of creative literature at Fisk University--experiences recorded in his autobiography, \u003cb\u003eAlong This Way\u003c\/b\u003e. Other books by him include \u003cb\u003eSaint Peter Relates an Incident\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eBlack Manhattan\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eGod's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse.\u003c\/b\u003e In addition to his own writing, Johnson was the editor of pioneering anthologies of black American poetry and spirituals. He died in 1938.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50874231456018,"sku":"9780141183879","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c6f9908b-cd11-4aca-a57a-8763ce3bb4ed.jpg?v=1737987575","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/lift-every-voice-and-sing-selected-poems-9780141183879","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}