Johnson, James Weldon (1871-1938)

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

WILPF International Summer School (1924)

The Irish Committee at Work, November 10, 1920

Preface to Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1924

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Birth Date

1871-06-17

Death Date

1938-06-26

Birthplace

Jacksonville, Florida

Biographical Text

James Weldon Johnson was an African-American civil rights leader, poet and novelist. Johnson was educated at the Atlanta University prep school and college and became the principal of the Stanton School in Jacksonville, while studying for a law degree. In 1900 with his brother Rosamund, he authored "Lift Every Voice and Sing," a tribute to Lincoln that became a popular inspirational for African-Americans. Johnson was appointed U.S. Consul to Puerto Rico (1906-1909), Nicaragua (1909-1912). He returned to New York in 1914 working as a journalist for the New York Age. He joned the staff of the NAACP in 1917, working as a field secretary in the South and beoming the national secretary in 1920. Johnson lobbied for African-American civil rights, against lynching and segregation. He was a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance, the author of poetry and novels, including The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912), the Book of American Negro Poetry (1922), and an autobiography, Along This Way (1933).

He married Grace Nail in 1910. They had no children. He died in 1938.

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Picture: James Weldon Johnson, half-length portrait at desk with telephone, ca. 1920 (Visual Materials from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Records, Library of Congress)

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Leppert, Charlie

Hajo, Cathy Moran

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Public domain

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Male

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1920

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“Johnson, James Weldon (1871-1938),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed September 9, 2024, http://mail.digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/21135.