Mother Night

Mother Night

by James Weldon Johnson

LibriVox volunteers bring you fifteen different readings of Mother Night, by James Weldon Johnson. This weekly poetry project (for the week of Feb 26, 2006) was selected to celebrate Black History Month.(Summary by Annie Coleman)

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James Weldon Johnson was an American writer and civil rights activist. He was married to civil rights activist Grace Nail Johnson. Johnson was a leader of the National Associa...

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