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James Weldon Johnson

American writer and activist (1871–1938)

James Weldon Johnson (June 17, 1871 – June 26, 1938) 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 Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), where he started working in 1917. In 1920, he was chosen as executive secretary of the organization, effectively the operating officer.^[1] He served in that position from 1920 to 1930. Johnson established his reputation as a writer, and was known during the Harlem Renaissance for his poems, novel and anthologies collecting both poems and spirituals of Black culture. He wrote the lyrics for "Lift Every Voice and Sing", which later became known as the Black National Anthem, the music being written by his younger brother, composer J. Rosamond Johnson.

Johnson was appointed under President Theodore Roosevelt as U.S. consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua for most of the period from 1906 to 1913. In 1934, he was the first African American prof

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James Weldon Johnson

James Weldon Johnson was born on June 17, 1871, in Jacksonville, Florida. Johnson was the eldest son of James Johnson, Sr., a head waiter at a hotel, and Helen Louise (née Dillet), a schoolteacher at the Stanton Preparatory School in Jacksonville, where Johnson would later become a principal at age twenty-three. His parents were immigrants from the Bahamas. Johnson attended Stanton, where his mother, who was one of his instructors, encouraged him to study English literature and the European musical tradition. He attended Atlanta University (now, Clark Atlanta University) and graduated with a BA, with honors, in 1894. Johnson took graduate courses at Columbia University sometime in the 1900s, but graduated with an MA from Atlanta University in 1904.

Johnson wrote and edited numerous historically significant books of poetry, particularly The Book of American Negro Poetry (Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922), a major contribution to the history of African American literature; The Book of American Negro Spirituals (Viking Press, 1925), foll

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James Weldon Johnson

(1871-1938)

Who Was James Weldon Johnson?

James Weldon Johnson was a civil rights activist, writer, composer, politician, educator and lawyer, as well as one of the leading figures in the creation and development of the Harlem Renaissance. After graduating from Atlanta University, Johnson worked as a principal in a grammar school, founded a newspaper, The Daily American, and became the first African American to pass the Florida Bar. His published works include The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912) and God's Trombones (1927).

Early Life and Career

James Weldon Johnson was born in Jacksonville, Florida, on June 17, 1871, the son of a freeborn Virginian father and a Bahamian mother, and was raised without a sense of limitations amid a society focused on segregating African Americans. After graduating from Atlanta University, Johnson was hired as a principal in a grammar school. While serving in this position, in 1895, he founded The Daily American newspaper. In 1897, Johnson became the first African American to pass the bar exam in Florid