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The Gift To Sing

LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of The Gift To Sing by James Weldon Johnson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 9, 2019. Read in English by Algy Pug; Bruce Kachuk; Chris Pyle; Cornel Nemes; David Lawrence; Newgatenovelist; Garth Burton; Greg Giordano; Graham Scott; James K. White; KevinS; Nan Dodge; NarratorJ; Sarah Hite; Phil Schempf; Tomas Peter; tovarisch; lslassor64; Anita Sloma-Martinez and Lee Ann Howlett. James Weldon Johnson was an American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, civil rights activist. He was married to civil rights activist Grace Nail Johnson. James Weldon Johnson is best remembered for his leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), where he started working in 1917. Johnson established his reputation as a writer, and was known during the Harlem Renaissance for his poems, novels, and anthologies collecting both poems and spirituals of black culture. - Summary by Wikipedia For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or

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