Sonnet (From the Spanish of Plácido)

About this film

LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Sonnet (From the Spanish of Plácido) by James Weldon Johnson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 26, 2015. Read in English by Algy Pug; Bruce Kachuk; David Lawrence; Newgatenovelist; fshort; Greg Giordano; Ian King; J. McDougall; Larry Wilson; Leonard Wilson and Rosslyn Carlyle. James Weldon Johnson was an American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist. Johnson is best remembered for his leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), where he started working in 1917. In 1920 he was the first black to be chosen as executive secretary of the organization, effectively the operating officer. - 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 to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . Download M4B (6MB)

Directors & creators

James Weldon Johnson

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks; literature; poetry; romance

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