FTP, identify this Harlem Renaissance author best known for writing the lyrics to a work commonly called the "Black National Anthem", Lift Every Voice and Sing.
Although he served as a consul to Venezuela from 1906 to 1910, he is better known for literary works such as the 1927 poetry collection God's Trombones, which contains his influential poem "The Creation". He also wrote about a fictional anonymous mulatto piano virtuoso who passes as a white man after witnessing a lynching in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man. FTP, identify this Harlem Renaissance author best known for writing the lyrics to a work commonly called the "Black National Anthem", Lift Every Voice and Sing.
Although he served as a consul to Venezuela from 1906 to 1910, he is better known for literary works such as the 1927 poetry collection God's Trombones, which contains his influential poem "The Creation".
James Weldon Johnson