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...
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James Weldon Johnson Park is a 1.54-acre (6,200 m2) public park in Downtown Jacksonville, Florida. Originally a village green, it was the first and is...
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The James Weldon Johnson Residence is a historic apartment house located at 187 West 135th Street, Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York. It is here...
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the Harlem Renaissance, and wife of the writer and politician James Weldon Johnson. Johnson was the daughter of John Bennett Nail, a wealthy businessman...
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B. Marks Music Company). J. Rosamond Johnson was the younger brother of poet and activist James Weldon Johnson, who wrote the lyrics for "Lift Every...
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Duval County Public Schools (redirect from James Weldon Johnson Middle School)
Duncan Fletcher John E. Ford Fort Caroline Matthew Gilbert Highlands James Weldon Johnson Kernan Kirby Smith Lake Shore Landmark Julia Landon College Prep...
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The James Weldon Johnson Community Library is a public library located in St. Petersburg, Florida. It is a branch of the St. Petersburg Library System...
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James Weldon Johnson Park station (formerly Hemming Park station) is a Jacksonville Skyway monorail station in Jacksonville, Florida. It is located on...
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NAACP as an investigator in 1918, at the invitation of James Weldon Johnson. He acted as Johnson's assistant national secretary and traveled to the South...
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Derrick Johnson is an American lawyer and humanitarian. He serves as the 17th President and CEO of the NAACP. He had previously served as president of...
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by its executive secretary, who acted as chief operating officer. James Weldon Johnson and Walter F. White, who served in that role successively from 1920...
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Hannah Park also has a campground with both RV and tent sites. James Weldon Johnson Park is a 1.54-acre (6,200 m2) public park in the heart of the government...
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melody was composed by author and songwriter James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) and his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson. It was first recorded by The Famous Myers...
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God's Trombones (category Works by James Weldon Johnson)
Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse is a 1927 book of poems by James Weldon Johnson patterned after traditional African-American religious oratory. African-American...
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northbound extension was completed, adding the Hemming Plaza (now James Weldon Johnson Park) and Rosa Parks Transit Station stops, and the Skyway reopened...
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Lift Every Voice and Sing (category Works by James Weldon Johnson)
Sing" is a hymn with lyrics by James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) and set to music by his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson (1873–1954). Written from the context...
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much longer. The zenith of this "flowering of Negro literature", as James Weldon Johnson preferred to call the Harlem Renaissance, took place between 1924—when...
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20th-century poetry, and he is noted for early prose poetry. Author James Weldon Johnson (no relation) called Fenton, "one of the first Negro revolutionary...
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their 1925 book, The Books of American Negro Spirituals, James Weldon Johnson and Grace Nail Johnson said that spirituals, which are "purely and solely the...
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slaveowners, who would judge the dancing and award cakes to the winners. James Weldon Johnson, born in 1871, recounted a cakewalk at a ball in his 1912 novel The...
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James W. Johnson may refer to: James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938), African-American figure in the Harlem Renaissance James Wood Johnson (1856–1932), co-founder...
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term "Red Summer" was coined by civil rights activist and author James Weldon Johnson, who had been employed as a field secretary by the National Association...
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is an American song composed by Robert Cole, J. Rosamond Johnson, and James Weldon Johnson. J. W. Stern & Co. published it in 1902. A ragtime hit, it...
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Lynchburg, Virginia, which had begun in 1913. In association with James Weldon Johnson, the branch became fully active with ninety-six members as of July...
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Man | James Weldon Johnson | Lit2Go ETC". Wilson, Dr. Sondra Kathryn. An Introduction to Along This Way: The Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson. Grace...
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born on November 19, 1974. He was raised by his grandmother in the James Weldon Johnson Housing Projects. His rap career started with the label Tape Kingz...
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Cole later partnered with brothers J. Rosamond Johnson, a pianist and singer, and James Weldon Johnson, a pianist, guitarist and lawyer, creating more...
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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by African-American writer James Weldon Johnson, in which he recounted a scene in New York City around the turn of...
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conservative side in the Sacco and Vanzetti case. Storey was, with James Weldon Johnson, the organizer of the 1919 National Conference on Lynching. In 1920...
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Maya Angelou (redirect from Marguerite Annie Johnson)
Dickens, William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and James Weldon Johnson, authors who would affect Angelou's life and career, as well...
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