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Can I read James Weldon Johnson: Lift Every Voice And Sing (picture-story Biographies) on EtoBox?
James Weldon Johnson: Lift Every Voice And Sing (picture-story Biographies) by Patricia C. McKissack; Fredrick McKissack is a children's book available to read on EtoBox.
What is James Weldon Johnson: Lift Every Voice And Sing (picture-story Biographies) about?
1990, trade paperback edition, Childrens Press, Chicago. 32 pages. Vintage photos throughout. James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) was raised in a household full of music. He would eventually graduate from a university with honors in 1894. He would become the first African American in Florida's history to pass the Bar exam. Later, with his brothers, he moved to New York City and became a successful song writer. He is perhaps best known today for the Lift Every Voice and Sing. Later in his life, he became a professor at a university in Tennessee. Sadly, he was killed in an auto accident in 1938. Quite a story; quite a man.
Who reads James Weldon Johnson: Lift Every Voice And Sing (picture-story Biographies)?
It is typically read by young readers, and the parents and educators who guide them.
Common subject areas: juvenile, young adult.
- Author
- Patricia C. McKissack; Fredrick McKissack
- Publisher
- Children's Press
- Published
- 1990
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780516441740
- Category
- children's
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Children'S, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.4 / 5 (2 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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