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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.
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912/1927) by James Weldon Johnson is the fictional account of a young biracial man, referred to only as the "Ex-Colored Man", living in post-Reconstruction era America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Grace Nail Johnson (February 27, 1885 – November 1, 1976) was an African-American civil rights activist and patron of the arts associated with the Harlem Renaissance, and wife of the writer and politician James Weldon Johnson. Johnson was the daughter of John Bennett Nail, a wealthy businessman and civil rights activist.
James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938), African-American figure in the Harlem Renaissance James Wood Johnson (1856–1932), co-founder of the company Johnson and Johnson Lefty Johnson (pitcher) (James W. Johnson), American baseball player of the 1930s
The song was originally written as a poem in 1899 by James Weldon Johnson, the NAACP's executive secretary for 10 years, per the NAACP.
The James Weldon Johnson Residence is located on the north side of West 135th Street, just east of its junction with Seventh Avenue in Manhattan's northern Harlem neighborhood. It is one of a pair of similar five-story brick buildings, which share styling and a party wall. The buildings have Romanesque styling, with that on the left exhibiting ...
Nicole R. Fleetwood (born February 24, 1973) is an American academic, curator, police abolitionist, prison abolitionist, and author.She is the inaugural James Weldon Johnson Professor at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.
Jason Kempin/Getty Images Kathie Lee Gifford is offering candid insight into the affair that rocked her marriage to late husband Frank Gifford. The former Today host, 70, reflected on how she ...