About this book
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.
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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
Chapters
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- 1The Gift To Sing - Read by ALP1:00 · read by Algy Pug
- 2The Gift To Sing - Read by BK1:13 · read by Bruce Kachuk
- 3The Gift To Sing - Read by CLP0:54 · read by Chris Pyle
- 4The Gift To Sing - Read by CN1:35 · read by Cornel Nemes
- 5The Gift To Sing - Read by DL1:02 · read by David Lawrence
- 6The Gift To Sing - Read by EL1:19 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 7The Gift To Sing - Read by GB1:11 · read by Garth Burton
- 8The Gift To Sing - Read by GG1:05 · read by Greg Giordano
- 9The Gift To Sing - Read by GRS1:10 · read by Graham Scott
- 10The Gift To Sing - Read by JKW1:05 · read by James K. White
- 11The Gift To Sing - Read by KS1:05 · read by KevinS
- 12The Gift To Sing - Read by ND1:01 · read by Nan Dodge
- 13The Gift To Sing - Read by NJ1:01 · read by NarratorJ
- 14The Gift To Sing - Read by SH0:57 · read by Sarah Hite
- 15The Gift To Sing - Read by PS0:58 · read by Phil Schempf
- 16The Gift To Sing - Read by TP1:05 · read by Tomas Peter
- 17The Gift To Sing - Read by VB1:06 · read by tovarisch
- 18The Gift To Sing - Read by LSLR1:05 · read by lslassor64
- 19The Gift To Sing - Read by ASM1:02 · read by Anita Sloma-Martinez
- 20The Gift To Sing - Read by LAH1:07 · read by Lee Ann Howlett
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